The Monte Carlo casino refused to admit me until I was properly dressed so I went and found my stockings, and then came back and lost my shirt.
DOROTHY PARKERI can’t write five words but that I change seven.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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The writer’s way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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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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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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