If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
DOROTHY PARKERThree be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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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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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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The writer’s way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?
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Women and elephants never forget.
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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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