Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
DOROTHY PARKERThe 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?
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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I’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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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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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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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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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
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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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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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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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