The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
DOROTHY PARKERAnd I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.
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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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Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.
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Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
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I don’t mind anything that’s written about me, as long as it’s not true.
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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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