Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
[After she and Clare Boothe Luce met in a doorway and the latter said, 'Age before beauty':] Pearls before swine. — 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
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
Said of her husband on the day their divorce became final: Oh, don't worry about Alan. . . . Alan will always… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Gertrude Stein did us the most harm when she said, 'You're all a lost generation.' That got around to certain people and… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
On lady novelists: As artists they're rot, but as providers they're oil wells; they gush. Norris said she never wrote a story… — 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
But I give you my word, in the entire book there is nothing that cannot be said aloud in mixed company. And… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
God, the bitter misery that reading works into this world! Everybody knows that - everbody who IS everybody. All the best minds… — 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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