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Money is only congealed snow.

By Dorothy Parker
And there was that wholesale libel on a Yale prom. If all the girls attending it were laid end to end, Mrs. Parker said, she wouldn't be at al...

By Dorothy Parker
They sicken of the calm who know the storm.

By Dorothy Parker
Travel, trouble, music, art, A kiss, a frock, a rhyme - I never said they feed my heart, But still they pass my time.

By Dorothy Parker
I like to have a martini, Two at the very most. After three I'm under the table, After four I'm under my host!

By Dorothy Parker
It's not the tragedies that kill us, it's the messes.

By Dorothy Parker
Razors pain you; rivers are damp; acids stain you; and drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful; you might as well live.

By Dorothy Parker
Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.

By Dorothy Parker
This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.

By Dorothy Parker
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!

By Dorothy Parker
If wild my breast and sore my pride, I bask in dreams of suicide, If cool my heart and high my head I think 'How lucky are the dead.'

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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?

By Dorothy Parker
Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

By Dorothy Parker
Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

By Dorothy Parker
He Robert Benchley and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.

By Dorothy Parker
I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.

By Dorothy Parker
Some men break your heart in two, Some men fawn and flatter, Some men never look at you; And that cleans up the matter.

By Dorothy Parker
I never thought that heav'n would lose its blue And sullen storm-clouds mask the gentle sky; I never thought the rose's velvet hue Would pale and sicken, though we said good-by. I never dreamed the lark would hush its note As day succeeded ever-drearier day, Nor knew the song that swelled the robin's throat Would fade to silence, when you went away. I never knew the sun's irradiant beams Upon the brooding earth no more would shine, Nor thought that only in my mocking dreams Would happiness that once I knew be mine. I never thought the slim moon, mournfully, Would shroud her pallid self in murky night. Dear heart, I never thought these things would be- I never thought they would, and I was right.

By Dorothy Parker
You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.

By Dorothy Parker
Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

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Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.

By Dorothy Parker
I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back on. I can't imagine how I did it. When I got away from it I couldn't even refer to the place by name. Out there, I called it.

By Dorothy Parker
They laid their hands upon my head, They stroked my cheek and brow; And time could heal a hurt, they said, And time could dim a vow. And they were pitiful and mild Who whispered to me then; The heart that breaks in April, child; Will mend in May again. Oh, many a mended heart they knew; So old they were, and wise. And little did they have to do To come to me with lies! Who flings me silly talk of May Shall meet a bitter soul; For June was nearly spent away Before my heart was whole.

By Dorothy Parker
Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.

By Dorothy Parker
Where's the man could ease a heart, like a satin gown?

By Dorothy Parker
Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn, the word

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It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard.

By Dorothy Parker
They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.

By Dorothy Parker
Time doth flit; Oh, shit.

By Dorothy Parker