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.
DOROTHY PARKERIf 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.
DOROTHY PARKERThat would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
DOROTHY PARKERQuick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
DOROTHY PARKERThe Monte Carlo casino refused to admit me until I was properly dressed so I went and found my stockings, and then came back and lost my shirt.
DOROTHY PARKERTake me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
DOROTHY PARKERTake me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
DOROTHY PARKERIt’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
DOROTHY PARKERGenius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
DOROTHY PARKEROf Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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 PARKERIf all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
DOROTHY PARKERThe definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
DOROTHY PARKERMen seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
DOROTHY PARKERMost good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
DOROTHY PARKERThe only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
DOROTHY PARKERNever throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
DOROTHY PARKER