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 first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
A list of authors who have made themselves most beloved and therefore, most comfortable financially, shows that it is our national joy… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
It takes me six months to do a story. I think it out and write it sentence by sentence - no first… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Be you wise and never sad, You will get your lovely lad. Never serious be, nor true, And your wish will come… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
It takes me six months to do a story. I think it out and then write it sentence by sentence - no… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
It is that word 'hunny,' my darlings, that marks the first place in The House at Pooh Corner at which Tonstant Weader… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
I misremember who first was cruel enough to nurture the cocktail party into life. But perhaps it would be not too much… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
I regret to say that during the first act of this, I fell so soundly asleep that the gentleman who brought me… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Lady, lady, never start Conversation toward your heart; Keep your pretty words serene; Never murmur what you mean. Show yourself, by word… — 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
