Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
DOROTHY PARKERLove is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I’ll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!
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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 don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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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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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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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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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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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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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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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
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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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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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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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