If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
DOROTHY PARKERIf you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
DOROTHY PARKERI require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
DOROTHY PARKERYears are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
DOROTHY PARKERTake me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
DOROTHY PARKERTime may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
DOROTHY PARKERTelegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
DOROTHY PARKERI’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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 PARKERQuick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
DOROTHY PARKERThe only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
DOROTHY PARKERAnd I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
DOROTHY PARKERIf all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
DOROTHY PARKERThe cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
DOROTHY PARKERMisfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
DOROTHY PARKER[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
DOROTHY PARKER