I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
DOROTHY PARKERDrink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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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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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.
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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
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