A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
DOROTHY PARKERThat woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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.
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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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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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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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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Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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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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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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