Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
DOROTHY PARKEROf course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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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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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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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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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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