I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
DOROTHY PARKERIt’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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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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Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
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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 cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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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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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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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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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
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