Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
DOROTHY PARKERIf you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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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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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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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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I’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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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 hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.
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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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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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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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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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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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