The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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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Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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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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The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
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You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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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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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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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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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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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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