I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
DOROTHY PARKERThe definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
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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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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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If I didn’t care for fun and such, I’d probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.
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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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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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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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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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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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Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
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Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
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