Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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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If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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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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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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Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
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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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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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