The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
DOROTHY PARKERThere’s life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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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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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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