Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
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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[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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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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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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If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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I don’t mind anything that’s written about me, as long as it’s not true.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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