Dorothy Parker on entertainment
Dorothy Parker115 quotes“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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There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker I don’t mind anything that’s written about me, as long as it’s not true.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker If I didn’t care for fun and such, I’d probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker Women and elephants never forget.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker
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