If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.
DOROTHY PARKERThat woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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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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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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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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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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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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A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I’ll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!
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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.
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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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