[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
DOROTHY PARKERYou can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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This 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.
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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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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A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
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There’s life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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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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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
DOROTHY PARKER







