A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
DOROTHY PARKERI like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I’m under the table/After four I’m under my host.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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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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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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What 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.
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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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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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I don’t mind anything that’s written about me, as long as it’s not true.
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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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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
DOROTHY PARKER