Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
DOROTHY PARKERWriting is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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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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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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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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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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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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I hate writing, I love having written.
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