He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
DOROTHY PARKERThis is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn’t touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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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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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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