Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
DOROTHY PARKERMost good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
DOROTHY PARKERThey sicken of the calm who know the storm.
DOROTHY PARKERAll I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
DOROTHY PARKEROf course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
DOROTHY PARKERBy the time you swear you’re his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this — One of you is lying.
DOROTHY PARKERA hangover is the wrath of grapes.
DOROTHY PARKERThose who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
DOROTHY PARKERHeterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
DOROTHY PARKERThere is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
DOROTHY PARKERThat would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
DOROTHY PARKERGenius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
DOROTHY PARKERNever throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
DOROTHY PARKERI’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money.
DOROTHY PARKERIt’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
DOROTHY PARKERNow 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!
DOROTHY PARKERYou can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
DOROTHY PARKER