The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
DOROTHY PARKERThey tire of quiet, that have known the storm
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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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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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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Writing well is the best revenge.
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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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Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.
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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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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
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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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