People Who Do Things exceed my endurance; God, for a man that solicits insurance! — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
The Swiss are a neat and an industrious people, none of whom is under seventy-five years of age. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
[At the reception following her remarriage to Alan Campbell:] People who haven't talked to each other in years are on speaking terms… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Gertrude Stein did us the most harm when she said, 'You're all a lost generation.' That got around to certain people and… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Yes, well, let me tell you that if nobody had ever learned to quote, very few people would be in love with… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
[On James Gould Cozzens' By Love Possessed:] It is a vast enterprise encompassing all sorts of love, except, naturally, those branches which… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
I'll think about something else. I'll just sit quietly. If I could sit still. If I could sit still, maybe I could… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack. I might try busting myself smartly over the temple with… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
God, the bitter misery that reading works into this world! Everybody knows that - everbody who IS everybody. All the best minds… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Perhaps it suddenly brought to us the sense of change. Or irresponsibility. But don't forget that, though the people in the twenties… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
There's little in taking or giving, There's little in water or wine: This living, this living, this living, Was never a project of mine.… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share
Hollywood is the one place on earth where you could die of encouragement. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share
“The two most beautiful words in the English language are 'check enclosed.” — Dorothy Parker Copy Share
Sometimes I think Ill give up trying, and just go completely Russian and sit on a stove and moan all day. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share
I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share
Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share
The sun's gone dim, and the moon's gone black. For I loved him, and he didn't love back. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share
There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share
It costs me never a stab nor squirm / To tread by chance upon a worm. / Aha, my little dear, / I say,… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share
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