Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
DOROTHY PARKERThe definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I’m under the table/After four I’m under my host.
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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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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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By the time you swear you’re his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this — One of you is lying.
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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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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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That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
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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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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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