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
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away. — 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
I don't mind anything that's written about me, as long as it's not true. — 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
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong;… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I'll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
The affair between Margot Asquinth and Margot Asquinth will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.) — 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
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
Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the things I'd been… — 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
Woman wants monogamy; Man delights in novelty. Love is woman's moon and sun; Man has other forms of fun. Woman lives but… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
My own dear love, he is strong and bold And he cares not what comes after. His words ring sweet as a… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Into love and out again, Thus I went and thus I go. Spare your voice, and hold your pen: Well and bitterly… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
“A Very Short Song Once, when I was young and true, Someone left me sad- Broke my brittle heart in two; And… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
“Love Song My own dear love, he is strong and bold And he cares not what comes after. His words ring sweet… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
“To keep something, you must take care of it. More, you must understand just what sort of care it requires. You must… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
I give her sadness and the gift of pain, a new moon madness and a love of rain. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so,… — 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
[On James Gould Cozzens' By Love Possessed:] It is a vast enterprise encompassing all sorts of love, except, naturally, those branches which… — 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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