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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[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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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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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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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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If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
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I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I’ll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!
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What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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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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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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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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