The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
DOROTHY PARKERI 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.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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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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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
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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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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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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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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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If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.
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I don’t mind anything that’s written about me, as long as it’s not true.
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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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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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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