Dorothy Parker

Dear Mary: We all knew you had it in you.

— Dorothy Parker

A girl's best friend is her mutter.

— Dorothy Parker

But I don't give up; I forget why not.

— Dorothy Parker

Flowers are heaven's masterpiece.

— Dorothy Parker

Brevity is the soul of lingerie.

— Dorothy Parker

Everybody's got their troubles.

— Dorothy Parker

Scratch a king and find a fool!

— Dorothy Parker

Art is a form of catharsis.

— Dorothy Parker

Four things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.

— Dorothy Parker

Anthologists are lazy fellows who like to spend a quiet evening at home raiding good books.

— Dorothy Parker

Where's the man could ease a heart Like a satin gown?

— Dorothy Parker

His books are exciting and powerful and — if I may filch the word from the booksy ones — pulsing.

— Dorothy Parker

When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken.

— Dorothy Parker

If I had any decency, I'd be dead. Most of my friends are.

— Dorothy Parker

[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?

— Dorothy Parker

[On hearing that President Coolidge was dead:] How can you tell?

— Dorothy Parker

Sometimes I think I'll give up trying, and just go completely Russian and sit on a stove and moan all day.

— Dorothy Parker

If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them ...

— Dorothy Parker

Benchley and I had an office in the old Life magazine that was so tiny, if it were an inch smaller it…

— Dorothy Parker

[On being told party guests were ducking for apples:] There, but for a typographical error, is the story of my life.

— Dorothy Parker

[On an actor who'd broken her leg in London:] Oh, how terrible. She must have done it sliding down a barrister.

— Dorothy Parker

For a few minutes, everything is so cute that the mind reels… And then, believe it or not, things get worse. So…

— Dorothy Parker

We were all imitative. We all wandered in after Miss Edna St. Vincent Millay. We were all being dashing and gallant, declaring…

— Dorothy Parker

If I should labor through daylight and dark, Consecrate, valorous, serious, true, Then on the world I may blazon my mark; And…

— Dorothy Parker

“Love Song My own dear love, he is strong and bold And he cares not what comes after. His words ring sweet…

— Dorothy Parker

But I give you my word, in the entire book there is nothing that cannot be said aloud in mixed company. And…

— Dorothy Parker

“To me, the raveled sleeve of care is never more painlessly knitted up than in an evening alone in a chair snug…

— Dorothy Parker

The plot is so tired that even this reviewer, who in infancy was let drop by a nurse with the result that…

— Dorothy Parker

Pictures pass me in long review,-- Marching columns of dead events. I was tender, and, often, true; Ever a prey to coincidence.…

— Dorothy Parker

Men They hail you as their morning star Because you are the way you are. If you return the sentiment, They'll try…

— Dorothy Parker

“LINSCOTT: Well, I don't like it. Man works damn hard, leaves his wife all his money, and some pretty boy comes along…

— Dorothy Parker

It has lately been drawn to your correspondent's attention that, at social gatherings, she is not the human magnet she would be.…

— Dorothy Parker

“You were perfectly fine.”

— Dorothy Parker

Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow.

— Dorothy Parker

Love is like quicksilver in the hand.

— Dorothy Parker

tomorrow's gone-we'll have tonight!

— Dorothy Parker

Scratch a lover, find a foe

— Dorothy Parker

A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.

— Dorothy Parker

I wish, I wish I were a poisonous bacterium.

— Dorothy Parker

People are more fun than anyone.

— Dorothy Parker