black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.

Dorothy Parker

There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
DOROTHY PARKER

Around Charm Done Stop
I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.
DOROTHY PARKER

Best Books Hands Myself Run
Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
DOROTHY PARKER

Death Growth Rose Willing
Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
DOROTHY PARKER

Age Choice Clothes Grave Life Style Time Yourself
If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.
DOROTHY PARKER

Friendship Greatness Happiness Present Writing Young
Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.
DOROTHY PARKER

Deny Fake Lying Storm Trouble
Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
DOROTHY PARKER

Break Friendship Time
A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
DOROTHY PARKER

Fight Liberty Man Room Start
Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
DOROTHY PARKER

Death God
Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
DOROTHY PARKER

Creativity Discipline Eyes Mindset Wild
That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
DOROTHY PARKER

Language No Talk Woman
[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
DOROTHY PARKER

Funny Hell Herself Phone
The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
DOROTHY PARKER

Education Learning Yourself
Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
DOROTHY PARKER

Alcohol Quick Vice
Women and elephants never forget.
DOROTHY PARKER

Animal Forget Funny Woman
The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
DOROTHY PARKER

Food Forever People

Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Dorothy Parker Quotes