His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
DOROTHY PARKERA little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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The only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
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I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.
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I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
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I’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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All 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?
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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