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.
DOROTHY PARKEROf Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
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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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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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