I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
DOROTHY PARKERI can’t write five words but that I change seven.
DOROTHY PARKERThey tire of quiet, that have known the storm
DOROTHY PARKERThe cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
DOROTHY PARKEROf course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
DOROTHY PARKERI was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
DOROTHY PARKERThere is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
DOROTHY PARKER[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.
DOROTHY PARKERWriting is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
DOROTHY PARKERAll I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don’t catch horses going around looking like people, do you?
DOROTHY PARKERIf love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
DOROTHY PARKERI don’t mind anything that’s written about me, as long as it’s not true.
DOROTHY PARKERBut I don’t give up; I forget why not.
DOROTHY PARKERDrink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
DOROTHY PARKERHeterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
DOROTHY PARKERThe cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
DOROTHY PARKERTake me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
DOROTHY PARKER