Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
DOROTHY PARKERLove is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
DOROTHY PARKERIt 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.
DOROTHY PARKERDucking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
DOROTHY PARKERThat woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
DOROTHY PARKER[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that’s much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
DOROTHY PARKERIf 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.
DOROTHY PARKERDrink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
DOROTHY PARKERMoney cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
DOROTHY PARKERDon’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
DOROTHY PARKERThis 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.
DOROTHY PARKERThey sicken of the calm who know the storm.
DOROTHY PARKERThe cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
DOROTHY PARKERThe 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?
DOROTHY PARKERA hangover is the wrath of grapes.
DOROTHY PARKERIt was written without fear and without research.
DOROTHY PARKERI require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
DOROTHY PARKER