Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
DOROTHY PARKEROh, seek, my love, your newer way; I’ll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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The only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
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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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I don’t mind anything that’s written about me, as long as it’s not true.
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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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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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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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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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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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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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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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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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