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 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 don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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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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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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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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[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 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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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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I’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don’t catch horses going around looking like people, do you?
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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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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