There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
DOROTHY PARKERA liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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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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I don’t mind anything that’s written about me, as long as it’s not true.
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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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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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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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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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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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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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