If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
DOROTHY PARKERA little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
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[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that’s much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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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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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
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Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
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Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.
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