Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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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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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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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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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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There’s life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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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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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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