Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
DOROTHY PARKERThe definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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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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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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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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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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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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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I’m under the table/After four I’m under my host.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money.
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