The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
DOROTHY PARKERYou can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.
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All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don’t catch horses going around looking like people, do you?
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that’s much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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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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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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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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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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