I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
DOROTHY PARKERI hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
DOROTHY PARKERWomen and elephants never forget.
DOROTHY PARKERThe definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
DOROTHY PARKERNever throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
DOROTHY PARKERCreativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
DOROTHY PARKERThe only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
DOROTHY PARKERThe only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
DOROTHY PARKERTelegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
DOROTHY PARKERHonesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.
DOROTHY PARKERVice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
DOROTHY PARKERAll 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?
DOROTHY PARKERWriting is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
DOROTHY PARKERThere’s life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
DOROTHY PARKERYou do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
DOROTHY PARKEROf Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
DOROTHY PARKERA little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
DOROTHY PARKER