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.
DOROTHY PARKERThis 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.
DOROTHY PARKERI was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
DOROTHY PARKERThat would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
DOROTHY PARKERDon’t look at me in that tone of voice.
DOROTHY PARKERI don’t mind anything that’s written about me, as long as it’s not true.
DOROTHY PARKERThe best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
DOROTHY PARKERThis is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
DOROTHY PARKERVice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
DOROTHY PARKERThe cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
DOROTHY PARKERThat woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
DOROTHY PARKERBy the time you swear you’re his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this — One of you is lying.
DOROTHY PARKERThe best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
DOROTHY PARKERGenius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
DOROTHY PARKERPeople ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
DOROTHY PARKERSaid after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
DOROTHY PARKERIf love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
DOROTHY PARKER