Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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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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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don’t catch horses going around looking like people, do you?
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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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If I didn’t care for fun and such, I’d probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.
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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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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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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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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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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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I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
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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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