There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
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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I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
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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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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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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!
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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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Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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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.
DOROTHY PARKER