Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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The 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.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn’t touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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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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It was written without fear and without research.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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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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I hate writing, I love having written.
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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