Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
DOROTHY PARKEROf Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
DOROTHY PARKERThat would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
DOROTHY PARKER[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that’s much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
DOROTHY PARKERHis voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
DOROTHY PARKERHe is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
DOROTHY PARKERI hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
DOROTHY PARKERA hangover is the wrath of grapes.
DOROTHY PARKERWhat ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
DOROTHY PARKERHeterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
DOROTHY PARKERDrink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
DOROTHY PARKERI don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
DOROTHY PARKERNever throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
DOROTHY PARKERI hate writing, I love having written.
DOROTHY PARKERThey sicken of the calm who know the storm.
DOROTHY PARKERA little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
DOROTHY PARKERThis is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
DOROTHY PARKER