Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
DOROTHY PARKERMisfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
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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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Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
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