Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
DOROTHY PARKERBy the time you swear you’re his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this — One of you is lying.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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By the time you swear you’re his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this — One of you is lying.
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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The Monte Carlo casino refused to admit me until I was properly dressed so I went and found my stockings, and then came back and lost my shirt.
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If I didn’t care for fun and such, I’d probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.
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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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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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There’s life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
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