I’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
DOROTHY PARKERA liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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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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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
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What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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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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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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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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