The only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
DOROTHY PARKERThree be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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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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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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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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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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The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that’s much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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