Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
DOROTHY PARKERThere is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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By 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.
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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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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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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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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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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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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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