Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
DOROTHY PARKERThree be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Women and elephants never forget.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.
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This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn’t touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
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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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Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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