Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
DOROTHY PARKERThere is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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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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What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
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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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If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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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The 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.
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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There’s life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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