The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
DOROTHY PARKERSaid after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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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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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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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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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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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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I’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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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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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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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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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.
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