Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
DOROTHY PARKERIt’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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I don’t mind anything that’s written about me, as long as it’s not true.
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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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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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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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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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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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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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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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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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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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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