By the time you swear you’re his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this — One of you is lying.
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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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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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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The writer’s way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?
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There’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.
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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I’m under the table/After four I’m under my host.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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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 require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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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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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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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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[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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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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