Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
DOROTHY PARKERTake me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that’s much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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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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There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
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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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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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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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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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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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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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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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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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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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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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Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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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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Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.
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