[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.
DOROTHY PARKERI hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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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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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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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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