I hate writing, I love having written.
DOROTHY PARKERI’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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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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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.
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Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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