I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.
DOROTHY PARKERIf all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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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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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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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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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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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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