Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
DOROTHY PARKERVice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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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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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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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Writing well is the best revenge.
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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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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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
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If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
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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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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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