Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
DOROTHY PARKERDon’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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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 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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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I’m under the table/After four I’m under my host.
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By 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.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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There’s life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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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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