I hate writing, I love having written.
DOROTHY PARKERThe Monte Carlo casino refused to admit me until I was properly dressed so I went and found my stockings, and then came back and lost my shirt.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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The Monte Carlo casino refused to admit me until I was properly dressed so I went and found my stockings, and then came back and lost my shirt.
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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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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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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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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
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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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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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