A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
DOROTHY PARKERIf you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
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If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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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!
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It was written without fear and without research.
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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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There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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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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