If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
DOROTHY PARKERTake me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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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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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
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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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I don’t mind anything that’s written about me, as long as it’s not true.
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The only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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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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The Monte Carlo casino refused to admit me until I was properly dressed so I went and found my stockings, and then came back and lost my shirt.
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You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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