A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
DOROTHY PARKERMaybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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 you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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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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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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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 can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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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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There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
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