Women Quotes by Dorothy Parker

You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.

— Dorothy Parker

Brevity is the soul of lingerie.

— Dorothy Parker

They sicken of the calm who know the storm.

— Dorothy Parker

His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.

— Dorothy Parker

Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.

— Dorothy Parker

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the…

— Dorothy Parker

The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.

— Dorothy Parker

That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.

— Dorothy Parker

There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

— Dorothy Parker

Prince, a precept I'd leave for you, Coined in Eden, existing yet: Skirt the parlor, and shun the zoo, Women and elephants…

— Dorothy Parker

Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.

— Dorothy Parker