Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
DOROTHY PARKERThree be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money.
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A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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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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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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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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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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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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