There's little in taking or giving, There's little in water or wine: This living, this living, this living, Was never a project… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters. ... Obscenity is too valuable… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters. The boys have gone hog-wild… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
I like to think of my shining tombstone. It gives me, as you might say, something to live for. — 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
They say of me, and so they should, It's doubtful if I come to good. I see acquaintances and friends Accumulating dividends… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
I never see that prettiest thing- A cherry bough gone white with Spring- But what I think, "How gay 'twould be To… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
It takes me six months to do a story. I think it out and then write it sentence by sentence - no… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Accursed from their birth they be Who seek to find monogamy, Pursuing it from bed to bed— I think they would be… — 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
[To the British actor who annoyed her by repeated references to his busy 'shedule':] I think you're full of skit. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
It takes me six months to do a story. I think it out and write it sentence by sentence - no first… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think I'll give up trying, and just go completely Russian and sit on a stove and moan all day. — 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
Speech to American Horticultural Society; when challenged to use horticulture in a sentence: You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
I'll think about something else. I'll just sit quietly. If I could sit still. If I could sit still, maybe I could… — 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
