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!
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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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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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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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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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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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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