I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
DOROTHY PARKERWriting is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that’s much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.
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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
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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 was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I’m under the table/After four I’m under my host.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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 woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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I’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
DOROTHY PARKER