The only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
DOROTHY PARKERSaid after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don’t catch horses going around looking like people, do you?
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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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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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The writer’s way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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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