If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
DOROTHY PARKERGenius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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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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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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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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All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don’t catch horses going around looking like people, do you?
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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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Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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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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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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