Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
DOROTHY PARKERMost good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
DOROTHY PARKERRidicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
DOROTHY PARKERAnd if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
DOROTHY PARKERA hangover is the wrath of grapes.
DOROTHY PARKERThat woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
DOROTHY PARKERDrink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
DOROTHY PARKERQuick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
DOROTHY PARKERI was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
DOROTHY PARKERYou do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
DOROTHY PARKERNow, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
DOROTHY PARKERI 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.
DOROTHY PARKERBy the time you swear you’re his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this — One of you is lying.
DOROTHY PARKERThe only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
DOROTHY PARKER[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
DOROTHY PARKERMaybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
DOROTHY PARKERIt’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
DOROTHY PARKER