All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Hollywood is one place in the world where you can die of encouragement. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
I regret to say that during the first act of this, I fell so soundly asleep that the gentleman who brought me… — 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
When I was young and bold and strong, The right was right, the wrong was wrong. With plume on high and flag… — 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
I had been fed, in my youth, a lot of old wives' tales about the way men would instantly forsake a beautiful… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
If I should labor through daylight and dark, Consecrate, valorous, serious, true, Then on the world I may blazon my mark; And… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
If I had a shiny gun I could have a world of fun Speeding bullets through the brains Of the folks that… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
...as for helping me in the outside world, the Convent taught me only that if you spit on a pencil eraser, it… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
... if this world were anything near what it should be there would be no more need of a Book Week than… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
“Penelope In the pathway of the sun, In the footsteps of the breeze, Where the world and sky are one, He shall… — 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
![“I had been fed, in my youth, a lot of old wives' tales about the way men would instantly forsake a beautiful woman to flock around a brilliant one. It is but fair to say that, after getting out in the world, I had never seen this happen." [From a column dated November 17, 1928]” quote by Dorothy Parker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ffd/dorothy-parker-700_beautiful_i-had-been-fed-in-my-youth-a-lot-of-old_1684942.jpg)
