If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
DOROTHY PARKERDucking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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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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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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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don’t catch horses going around looking like people, do you?
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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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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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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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