I hate writing, I love having written.
DOROTHY PARKERYou can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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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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If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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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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The only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
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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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