A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
DOROTHY PARKERIf you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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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 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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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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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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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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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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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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By 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.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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