The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
DOROTHY PARKERIf all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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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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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
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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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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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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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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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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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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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I’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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