Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
DOROTHY PARKERIf you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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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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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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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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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Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
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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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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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