His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
DOROTHY PARKERHis voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
DOROTHY PARKERAnd I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
DOROTHY PARKEROf Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
DOROTHY PARKERLove is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
DOROTHY PARKEROf course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
DOROTHY PARKEROf Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
DOROTHY PARKERIf you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
DOROTHY PARKERIf all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
DOROTHY PARKERThey tire of quiet, that have known the storm
DOROTHY PARKERTake me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
DOROTHY PARKERThe only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
DOROTHY PARKERI was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
DOROTHY PARKERThe best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
DOROTHY PARKERThey sicken of the calm who know the storm.
DOROTHY PARKERCreativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
DOROTHY PARKER[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
DOROTHY PARKER