The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
DOROTHY PARKERThose who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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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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Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
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I don’t mind anything that’s written about me, as long as it’s not true.
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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