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Dorothy Parker Inspirational Quotes (207)

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Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey The horse doth with the horseman away.
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I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.
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Pictures pass me in long review,-- Marching columns of dead events. I was tender, and, often, true Ever a prey to coincidence. Always knew I the consequence Always saw what the end would be. We're as Nature has made us -- hence I loved them until they loved me.
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There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about it.
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Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.
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At birth the Devil touched my tongue.
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If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
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She can sit up and beg, and she can give her paw — I don't say she will, but she can.
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Ah, clear they see and true they say That one shall weep, and one shall stray
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It is that word 'hunny,' my darlings, that marks the first place in The House at Pooh Corner at which Tonstant Weader fwowed up.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful.
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She will never win him, whose words had shown she feared to lose.
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Once, when I was young and true. Someone left me sad - Broke my brittle heart in two And that is very bad. Love is for unlucky folk, Love is but a curse. Once there was a heart I broke And that, I think, is worse.
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I like to think of my shining tombstone. It gives me, as you might say, something to live for.
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...as for helping me in the outside world, the Convent taught me only that if you spit on a pencil eraser, it will erase ink.
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[On Lou Tellegen's Women Have Been Kind:] The book ... has all the elegance of a quirked little finger and all the glitter of a pair of new rubbers.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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I wish, I wish I were a poisonous bacterium.
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Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.
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When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken.
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Mrs. Ewing was a short woman who accepted the obligation borne by so many short women to make up in vivacity what they lack in number of inches from the ground.
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When I was young and bold and strong, The right was right, the wrong was wrong. With plume on high and flag unfurled, I rode away to right the world. But now I’m old - and good and bad, Are woven in a crazy plaid. I sit and say the world is so, And wise is s/he who lets it go.
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[On being told their loquacious, domineering host was 'outspoken':] By whom?
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