I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
DOROTHY PARKERDrink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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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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If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
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Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I’ll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!
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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
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I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money.
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