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.
DOROTHY PARKERNever throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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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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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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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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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I’m under the table/After four I’m under my host.
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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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