His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
DOROTHY PARKERIf you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn’t touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
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All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don’t catch horses going around looking like people, do you?
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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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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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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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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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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