Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
DOROTHY PARKERLos Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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By the time you swear you’re his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this — One of you is lying.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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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’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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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 was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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The only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
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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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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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