The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
DOROTHY PARKERYou can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.
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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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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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