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.
DOROTHY PARKERThe only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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If I didn’t care for fun and such, I’d probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.
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Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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