The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
DOROTHY PARKERBy 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.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don’t catch horses going around looking like people, do you?
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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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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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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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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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