Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
DOROTHY PARKERWriting is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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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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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I’m under the table/After four I’m under my host.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.
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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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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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By the time you swear you’re his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this — One of you is lying.
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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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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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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