If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
DOROTHY PARKERIf all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
DOROTHY PARKERGenius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
DOROTHY PARKERI’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money.
DOROTHY PARKERTake me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
DOROTHY PARKERThe only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
DOROTHY PARKERNow I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!
DOROTHY PARKERA hangover is the wrath of grapes.
DOROTHY PARKERTake me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
DOROTHY PARKERIf all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
DOROTHY PARKEROf Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
DOROTHY PARKERThe definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
DOROTHY PARKERVice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
DOROTHY PARKERBut I don’t give up; I forget why not.
DOROTHY PARKERIt was written without fear and without research.
DOROTHY PARKERThis is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
DOROTHY PARKERPeople ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
DOROTHY PARKER