Writing well is the best revenge.
DOROTHY PARKERWriting well is the best revenge.
DOROTHY PARKERI was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
DOROTHY PARKERYou can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
DOROTHY PARKERThe cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
DOROTHY PARKERIf love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
DOROTHY PARKERThere’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.
DOROTHY PARKERGenius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
DOROTHY PARKERMoney cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
DOROTHY PARKERThe only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
DOROTHY PARKERDon’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
DOROTHY PARKERThe definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
DOROTHY PARKERNow I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!
DOROTHY PARKERThe only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
DOROTHY PARKERBy 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.
DOROTHY PARKERWhat ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
DOROTHY PARKERFriends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
DOROTHY PARKER