Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
DOROTHY PARKERI hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I’m under the table/After four I’m under my host.
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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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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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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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Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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The writer’s way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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