I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
DOROTHY PARKERI was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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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That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
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Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
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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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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.
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