If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
DOROTHY PARKERThere is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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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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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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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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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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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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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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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