The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
DOROTHY PARKERGenius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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I don’t mind anything that’s written about me, as long as it’s not true.
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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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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
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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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I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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I’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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