Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
DOROTHY PARKERTake me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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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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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
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It was written without fear and without research.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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