All 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 PARKERI don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
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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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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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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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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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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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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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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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