Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
DOROTHY PARKERTake me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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I don’t mind anything that’s written about me, as long as it’s not true.
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Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn’t touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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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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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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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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