I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
I don't mind anything that's written about me, as long as it's not true. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
When you have to apologize, it is well, I suppose, to get the thing over quickly ... — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
On being told of the death of former President Calvin Coolidge: How could they tell? — 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
Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt. — 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
You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them. — 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
