I might repeat to myself . . . a list of quotations from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all assume that… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Men don't like nobility in woman. Not any men. I suppose it is because the men like to have the copyrights on… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Then if my friendships break and bend, There's little need to cry The while I know that every foe Is faithful till… — 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
[To woman bragging about having kept her husband for seven years:] Don't worry, if you keep him long enough, he'll come back… — 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
The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
... if this world were anything near what it should be there would be no more need of a Book Week than… — 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
If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them ... — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
[On William Lyon Phelps's Happiness:] It is second only to a rubber duck as the ideal bathtub companion. It may be held… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about… — 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
...as for helping me in the outside world, the Convent taught me only that if you spit on a pencil eraser, it… — 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
Benchley and I had an office in the old Life magazine that was so tiny, if it were an inch smaller it… — 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
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