I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
DOROTHY PARKERI require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
DOROTHY PARKERThat woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
DOROTHY PARKERYou do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
DOROTHY PARKERWhat ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
DOROTHY PARKERThe cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
DOROTHY PARKERTake me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
DOROTHY PARKERIf you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
DOROTHY PARKERThe Monte Carlo casino refused to admit me until I was properly dressed so I went and found my stockings, and then came back and lost my shirt.
DOROTHY PARKERHonesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.
DOROTHY PARKERLove is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
DOROTHY PARKERThe only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
DOROTHY PARKERI hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
DOROTHY PARKERYears are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
DOROTHY PARKERI can’t write five words but that I change seven.
DOROTHY PARKEROf Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
DOROTHY PARKERI’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
DOROTHY PARKER