I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
DOROTHY PARKERTime may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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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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Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I’ll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!
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There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
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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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I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
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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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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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