Source: Song of the Shirt, 1941
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Famous Dorothy Parker Quotes
Source: The Best of Dorothy Parker
“This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it.”
“He and I had an office so tiny, that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.”
“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.”
“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”
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“I require three things in a man: he must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.”
“I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true.”
“The two most beautiful words in the English language are 'check enclosed.”
Source: Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words