And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Her big heart did not, as is so sadly often the case, inhabit a big bosom. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
If wild my breast and sore my pride, I bask in dreams of suicide, If cool my heart and high my head… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Because your eyes are slant and slow, Because your hair is sweet to touch, My heart is high again; but oh, I… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Travel, trouble, music, art, a kiss, a frock, a rhyme -- I never said they feed my heart, but still they pass… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Her mind lives tidily, apart from cold and noise and pain. And bolts the door against her heart, out wailing in the… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
My love runs by like a day in June, And he makes no friends of sorrows. He'll tread his galloping rigadoon In… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Once, when I was young and true. Someone left me sad - Broke my brittle heart in two; And that is very… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Little Words When you are gone, there is nor bloom nor leaf, Nor singing sea at night, nor silver birds; And I… — 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
Some men break your heart in two, Some men fawn and flatter, Some men never look at you; And that cleans up… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
For this my mother wrapped me warm, And called me home against the storm, And coaxed my infant nights to quiet, 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
