Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
DOROTHY PARKERThe definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
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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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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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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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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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The only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for 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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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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I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
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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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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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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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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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