I’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
DOROTHY PARKERWriting is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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 hate writing, I love having written.
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If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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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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Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
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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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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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