Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
DOROTHY PARKERGenius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
DOROTHY PARKEROf Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
DOROTHY PARKERRidicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
DOROTHY PARKERAnd I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
DOROTHY PARKERMaybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
DOROTHY PARKERTime may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
DOROTHY PARKERHe is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
DOROTHY PARKERI can’t write five words but that I change seven.
DOROTHY PARKERThere is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
DOROTHY PARKERThe definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
DOROTHY PARKERWhere unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
DOROTHY PARKERIf love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
DOROTHY PARKERThe writer’s way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?
DOROTHY PARKERAnd I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
DOROTHY PARKEROf Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
DOROTHY PARKERQuick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
DOROTHY PARKER