And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
DOROTHY PARKERI don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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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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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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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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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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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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[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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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.
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!
DOROTHY PARKER







