Once I was coming down a street in Beverly Hills and I saw a Cadillac about a block long, and out of… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Like many a better one before me, I have gone down under the force of numbers, under the books and books and… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Pictures pass me in long review,-- Marching columns of dead events. I was tender, and, often, true; Ever a prey to coincidence.… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Daily dawns another day; I must up, to make my way. Though I dress and drink and eat, Move my fingers and… — 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 Image
Hollywood is the one place on earth where you could die of encouragement. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
“The two most beautiful words in the English language are 'check enclosed.” — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
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 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image