The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
DOROTHY PARKERShould they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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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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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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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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There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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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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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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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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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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It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.
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