More from Dorothy Parker
Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker It was written without fear and without research.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker 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.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker 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.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker There’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 ParkerDorothy Parker Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker
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