Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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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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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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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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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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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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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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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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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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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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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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The only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
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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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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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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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There’s life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
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