Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don’t catch horses going around looking like people, do you?
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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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 want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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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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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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