Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
DOROTHY PARKERCreativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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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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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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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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I hate writing, I love having written.
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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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 you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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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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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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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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