You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
DOROTHY PARKERAll I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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The writer’s way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?
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[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that’s much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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