Dorothy Parker Quotes
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~ Dorothy Parker Quote
Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
~ Dorothy Parker Quote
Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
~ Dorothy Parker Quote
They sicken of the calm that know the storm.
~ Dorothy Parker Quote
Women and elephants never forget.
~ Dorothy Parker Quote
Work is the province of cattle.
~ Dorothy Parker Quote
Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful. So you might as well live.
~ Dorothy Parker Quote
Lips that taste of tears, they say are the best for kissing.
~ Dorothy Parker Quote
Those who have mastered etiquette,who are entirely, impeccably right,would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
~ Dorothy Parker Quote
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
~ Dorothy Parker Quote
She realizes she doesn't know as much as God but feels she knows as much as God knew when he was her age.
~ Dorothy Parker Quote
Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses.
~ Dorothy Parker Quote
Scratch a lover, and find a foe.
~ Dorothy Parker Quote
Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
~ Dorothy Parker Quote
The two most beautiful words in the English language are "cheque enclosed".
~ Dorothy Parker Quote
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
~ Dorothy Parker Quote
I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damned things.
~ Dorothy Parker Quote
Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.
~ Dorothy Parker Quote
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
~ Dorothy Parker Quote
Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
~ Dorothy Parker Quote
There was never a place for her in the ranks of the terrible, slow army of the cautious. She ran ahead, where there were no paths.
~ Dorothy Parker Quote
He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.
~ Dorothy Parker Quote
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
~ Dorothy Parker Quote
Money is only congealed snow.
~ Dorothy Parker Quote
Where's the man could ease the heart Like a satin gown?
~ Dorothy Parker Quote
I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.
~ Dorothy Parker Quote
I shall stay the way I am Because I do not give a damn.
~ Dorothy Parker Quote
Where, unwilling, dies the rose, Buds the new, another year.
~ Dorothy Parker Quote
Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.
~ Dorothy Parker Quote
