The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
DOROTHY PARKERNow I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.
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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
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Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!
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There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
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