Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
DOROTHY PARKERThe 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.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I’ll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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The only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
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Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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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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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.
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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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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn’t touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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