Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
DOROTHY PARKERBewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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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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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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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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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
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