If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
DOROTHY PARKERAnd I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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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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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
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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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It was written without fear and without research.
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
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What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
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I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.
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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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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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