There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
DOROTHY PARKERVice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
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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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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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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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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I’m under the table/After four I’m under my host.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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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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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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