A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
DOROTHY PARKERThe best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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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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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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I’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.
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I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I’ll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!
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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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[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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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
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