Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
DOROTHY PARKERI’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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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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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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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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If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
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I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money.
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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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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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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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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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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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