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!
DOROTHY PARKERWriting is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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There’s life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
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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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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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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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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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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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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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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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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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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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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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