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
Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
The ladies men admire, I've heard, Would shudder at a wicked word. Their candle gives a single light, They'd rather stay at… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
I like to have a martini, Two at the very most. After three I'm under the table, after four I'm under my… — 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
