Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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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I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money.
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I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
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If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
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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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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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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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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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