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Famous Dorothy Parker Quotes
“I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.”
“People Who Do Things exceed my endurance; God, for a man that solicits insurance!”
“And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.”
“Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.”
“They say of me, and so they should, It's doubtful if I come to good.”
“If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised.”
“She can sit up and beg, and she can give her paw — I don't say she will, but she can.”
“Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night.”
“Her big heart did not, as is so sadly often the case, inhabit a big bosom.”
“Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.”
“His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.”
“The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.”
“That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.”
“She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.”
“Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart.”
“Authors and actors and artists and such - Never know nothing, and never know much.”
“Now, look, baby, 'Union' is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.”
“All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.”
“There was a reason for the cost of those perfectly plain black dresses.”
“Ah, clear they see and true they say That one shall weep, and one shall stray”
“If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.”