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Famous Dorothy Parker Quotes
“I'm not a writer with a drinking problem, I'm a drinker with a writing problem.”
“Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.”
“Friends come and go but I wouldn't have thought you'd be one of them”
“Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.”
“I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.”
“If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.”
“Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.”
“Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful. So you might as well live.”
“Love is like quicksilver in the hand.”
“Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.”
“Age before beauty, and pearls before swine.”
“She will never win him, whose words had shown she feared to lose.”
“Don't feel bad when I die; I've been dead for a long time.”
“This must be a gift book. That is to say a book, which you wouldn't take on any other terms.”
“Hell's afloat in lover's tears.”
“Four things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.”
“Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world.”
“When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken.”
“Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.”
“Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.”