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 PARKERHe is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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 PARKERAnd if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
DOROTHY PARKERI like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I’m under the table/After four I’m under my host.
DOROTHY PARKERI hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
DOROTHY PARKERThere is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
DOROTHY PARKERThat woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
DOROTHY PARKERTelegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
DOROTHY PARKERThere’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
DOROTHY PARKERRidicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
DOROTHY PARKERSaid after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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 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 PARKERTime may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
DOROTHY PARKERHis voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
DOROTHY PARKER