There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
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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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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If I didn’t care for fun and such, I’d probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I’m under the table/After four I’m under my host.
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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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