The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
DOROTHY PARKERThe only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that’s much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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The writer’s way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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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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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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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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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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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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