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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.


Dorothy Parker

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afte...
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DOROTHY PARKER Somebody was using the pencil.
DOROTHY PARKER That would be a good thing for them to carve on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it ...
DOROTHY PARKER A list of authors who have made themselves most beloved and therefore, most comfortable financially,...
DOROTHY PARKER I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be a darling at it.
DOROTHY PARKER Byron and Shelley and Keats/ Were a trio of lyrical treats.
DOROTHY PARKER That woman speaks eight languages and can't say no in any of them.
DOROTHY PARKER "Cheque enclosed" are the two most beautiful words in the English language
DOROTHY PARKER She looks as new as a peeled egg
DOROTHY PARKER She looks like something that would eat its young
DOROTHY PARKER I was fired from there, finally, for a lot of things, among them my insistence that the Immaculate C...
DOROTHY PARKER By the time you swear you are his, shivering and sighing, And he vows his passion is infinite and un...
DOROTHY PARKER Too fucking busy, and vice versa. [Reply to her editor who was bugging her for her belated work whil...
DOROTHY PARKER They sicken of the calm, who know the storm
DOROTHY PARKER People are more fun than any body
DOROTHY PARKER I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicule...
DOROTHY PARKER I suppose that now if I ever wrote a play about myself I'd be sued for plagiarism
DOROTHY PARKER There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simp...
DOROTHY PARKER Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
DOROTHY PARKER Lips that taste of tears, they say/ Are the best for kissing.
DOROTHY PARKER I wish I could drink like a lady / I can take one or two at the most / Three and I'm under the table...
DOROTHY PARKER My land is bare of chattering folk; / the clouds are low along the ridges, / and sweet's the air wit...
DOROTHY PARKER The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe!
DOROTHY PARKER This is on me. [suggested for her tombstone]
DOROTHY PARKER Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to exci...
DOROTHY PARKER Money is only congealed snow.
DOROTHY PARKER Why, that dog is practically a Phi Beta Kappa. She can sit up and beg, and she can give her paw -- I...
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