There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
DOROTHY PARKERThe cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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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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This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn’t touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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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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Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
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The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
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There’s life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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