Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
DOROTHY PARKERTake me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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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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What 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.
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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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Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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