Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!
DOROTHY PARKER
Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!
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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 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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[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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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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Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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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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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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