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Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves. — Dorothy Parker

Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world. — Dorothy Parker

The House Beautiful is the play lousy. — Dorothy Parker

Anthologists are lazy fellows who like to spend a quiet evening at home raiding good books. — Dorothy Parker

A girl's best friend is her mutter. — Dorothy Parker

[On being told their loquacious, domineering host was 'outspoken':] By whom? — Dorothy Parker

I'll have a martini...two at the most. Three, I'm under the table...four, I'm under the host. — Dorothy Parker

You can't take it with you, and even if you did, it would probably melt. — Dorothy Parker

Trapped like a trap in a trap — Dorothy Parker

I give her sadness and the gift of pain,
a new moon madness and a love of rain. — Dorothy Parker

She realizes she doesn't know as much as God but feels she knows as much as God knew when he was her age. — Dorothy Parker

I've finally gotten to the bottom of things. — Dorothy Parker

That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them. — Dorothy Parker

Every love's the love before
In a duller dress. — Dorothy Parker

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

[To woman bragging about having kept her husband for seven years:] Don't worry, if you keep him long enough, he'll come back in style. — Dorothy Parker

If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised. — Dorothy Parker

The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk. — Dorothy Parker

Lips that taste of tears, they say,
Are the best for kissing. — Dorothy Parker

Writing well is the best revenge. — Dorothy Parker

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires. — Dorothy Parker

Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it. — Dorothy Parker

Their pooled emotions wouldn't fill a teaspoon. — Dorothy Parker

There was a reason for the cost of those perfectly plain black dresses. — Dorothy Parker

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away. — Dorothy Parker

I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true. — Dorothy Parker

You can't teach an old dogma new tricks. — Dorothy Parker

Art is a form of catharsis emotional release, purging, cleansing, purifying. — Dorothy Parker

Sunlight dusts them; Water is damp; Crosses pain them; And beheadings cause cramps - — Thomm Quackenbush

Innocence is a desirable thing, a dainty thing, an appealing thing, in its place; but carried too far, it is merely ridiculous. — Dorothy Parker

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye. — Dorothy Parker

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, a medley of extemporanea, And love is a thing that can never go wrong, and I am Marie of Romania. — Dorothy Parker

LINSCOTT: Well, life certainly treats you fine.
CONNIE: No, Tom. Life and I go Dutch. — Dorothy Parker

Scratch a king and find a fool! — Dorothy Parker

You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do. — Dorothy Parker

Friends come and go but I wouldn't have thought you'd be one of them — Dorothy Parker

It costs me never a stab nor squirm / To tread by chance upon a worm. / Aha, my little dear, / I say, Your clan will pay me back one day. — Dorothy Parker

Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring. — Dorothy Parker

I'm of the glamorous ladies At whose beckoning history shook. But you are a man, and see only my pan, So I stay at home with a book. — Dorothy Parker

This must be a gift book. That is to say a book, which you wouldn't take on any other terms. — Dorothy Parker