And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
DOROTHY PARKERFriends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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[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.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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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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If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
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If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.
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It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.
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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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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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