You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
DOROTHY PARKERYears are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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The only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
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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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Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
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If I didn’t care for fun and such, I’d probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.
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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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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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I don’t mind anything that’s written about me, as long as it’s not true.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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