Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
DOROTHY PARKERSaid after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
DOROTHY PARKERAnd if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
DOROTHY PARKERIf all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
DOROTHY PARKER[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
DOROTHY PARKERYou do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
DOROTHY PARKERLove is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
DOROTHY PARKERI’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.
DOROTHY PARKERWhere unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
DOROTHY PARKERThree be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
DOROTHY PARKERMost good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
DOROTHY PARKERBewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
DOROTHY PARKERThe best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
DOROTHY PARKERTake me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
DOROTHY PARKERIf you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
DOROTHY PARKERTime may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
DOROTHY PARKERThe cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
DOROTHY PARKER