The only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
DOROTHY PARKERQuick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don’t catch horses going around looking like people, do you?
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This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn’t touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I’m under the table/After four I’m under my host.
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I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money.
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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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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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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.
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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