The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
DOROTHY PARKERThe cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
DOROTHY PARKERMisfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
DOROTHY PARKERI like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.
DOROTHY PARKERBut I don’t give up; I forget why not.
DOROTHY PARKERFriends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
DOROTHY PARKERNow, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
DOROTHY PARKERThat would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
DOROTHY PARKEROf Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
DOROTHY PARKERIf love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
DOROTHY PARKEROf course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
DOROTHY PARKERThey tire of quiet, that have known the storm
DOROTHY PARKERDon’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
DOROTHY PARKERI don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
DOROTHY PARKERTake me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
DOROTHY PARKERThere’s life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
DOROTHY PARKERI was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
DOROTHY PARKER