I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
DOROTHY PARKERIt was written without fear and without research.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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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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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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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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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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The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
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