I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
DOROTHY PARKERThose who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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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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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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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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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
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The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
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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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Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
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