I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money.
DOROTHY PARKERAnd I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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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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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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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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