All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
DOROTHY PARKERAll I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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.
DOROTHY PARKERI was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
DOROTHY PARKEROf Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
DOROTHY PARKERIf all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
DOROTHY PARKERWhere unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
DOROTHY PARKERBewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
DOROTHY PARKERIt was written without fear and without research.
DOROTHY PARKERHonesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.
DOROTHY PARKERBut I don’t give up; I forget why not.
DOROTHY PARKERDon’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
DOROTHY PARKERAnd I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
DOROTHY PARKERMoney cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
DOROTHY PARKERAll 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?
DOROTHY PARKERI require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
DOROTHY PARKERTime may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
DOROTHY PARKER