The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
DOROTHY PARKERSaid after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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The writer’s way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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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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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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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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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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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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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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