I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
DOROTHY PARKERVice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
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This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn’t touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
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Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
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The only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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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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If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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