I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
DOROTHY PARKERThe definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
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A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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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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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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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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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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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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I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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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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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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