The only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
DOROTHY PARKERA little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
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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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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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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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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.
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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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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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