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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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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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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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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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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I don’t mind anything that’s written about me, as long as it’s not true.
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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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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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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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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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