Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
DOROTHY PARKERMen seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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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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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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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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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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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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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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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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I don’t mind anything that’s written about me, as long as it’s not true.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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