Dorothy Parker Quotes

265 quotes in 2566 categories

• Love is like quicksilver in the hand.
• How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack. I might try busting myself smartly over the temple with the night-light. I…
• Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
• Age before beauty, and pearls before swine.
• Every fashion, the fashion before: in a duller dress.
• She will never win him, whose words had shown she feared to lose.
• If I didn't care for fun and such, I'd probably amount to much, but I shall stay the way I am, because I do not…
• Don't feel bad when I die; I've been dead for a long time.
• This must be a gift book. That is to say a book, which you wouldn't take on any other terms.
• Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
• Hell's afloat in lover's tears.
• Scratch a lover, and find a foe.
• Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song
• If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of…
• Writing well is the best revenge.
• It takes me six months to do a story. I think it out and write it sentence by sentence - no first draft. I can't…
• If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
• Four things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
• Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.
• Dear Mary: We all knew you had it in you.

Browse Dorothy Parker Quotes by Category