Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
DOROTHY PARKERDucking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
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There’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.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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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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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
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The Monte Carlo casino refused to admit me until I was properly dressed so I went and found my stockings, and then came back and lost my shirt.
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