Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
DOROTHY PARKERAnd I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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I’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don’t catch horses going around looking like people, do you?
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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