Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
DOROTHY PARKERThere’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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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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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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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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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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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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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I’ll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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What 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.
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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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