Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
DOROTHY PARKERThe best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.
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I’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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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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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
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Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
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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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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I’ll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!
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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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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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