I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
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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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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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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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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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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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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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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If I didn’t care for fun and such, I’d probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.
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Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!
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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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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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By the time you swear you’re his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this — One of you is lying.
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