The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
DOROTHY PARKERFriends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
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The only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
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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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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.
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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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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that’s much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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