Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
DOROTHY PARKERI’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.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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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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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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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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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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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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