Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
DOROTHY PARKERIf I didn’t care for fun and such, I’d probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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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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Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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By the time you swear you’re his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this — One of you is lying.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.
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