I hate writing, I love having written.
DOROTHY PARKERI hate writing, I love having written.
DOROTHY PARKERThe definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
DOROTHY PARKERIf all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
DOROTHY PARKERTake me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
DOROTHY PARKERYou do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
DOROTHY PARKERIf you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
DOROTHY PARKERIt was written without fear and without research.
DOROTHY PARKERVice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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 PARKERThis 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.
DOROTHY PARKERMen seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
DOROTHY PARKERAnd I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
DOROTHY PARKERTime may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
DOROTHY PARKERMoney cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
DOROTHY PARKERI was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
DOROTHY PARKERAnd I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
DOROTHY PARKER