Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
DOROTHY PARKERDrink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I’m under the table/After four I’m under my host.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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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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Now 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!
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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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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