Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
DOROTHY PARKERThe definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
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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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The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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If I didn’t care for fun and such, I’d probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.
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This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn’t touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
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The Monte Carlo casino refused to admit me until I was properly dressed so I went and found my stockings, and then came back and lost my shirt.
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