The 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 PARKERGenius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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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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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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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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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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