If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
DOROTHY PARKERWhat 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.
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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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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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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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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If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
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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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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money.
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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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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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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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