Best Dorothy Parker Quotations
- What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean… Bases
- Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat. Applying
- On being told of the death of former President Calvin Coolidge: How could they tell? Calvin
- I fell into writing, I suppose, being one of those awful children who wrote verses. I went to a convent in New York-the Blessed Sacrament...… Among
- I won't telephone him. I'll never telephone him again as long as I live. He'll rot in hell, before I'll call him up. You don't… Call
- It's easier to write about those you hate — just as it's easier to criticize a bad play or a bad book. Bad
- The ones I like are ‘cheque’ and ‘enclosed.’ Cheque
- There was always something immensely comic to her in the thought of living elsewhere than New York. She could not regard as serious proposals that… Always Something
- Men don't like nobility in woman. Not any men. I suppose it is because the men like to have the copyrights on nobility -- if… Any
- I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicule may be a shield, but… Been
- Money is only congealed snow. Congealed
- If I don't drive around the park, I'm pretty sure to make my mark. If I'm in bed each night by ten, I may get… Abstain
- My own dear love, he is strong and bold And he cares not what comes after. His words ring sweet as a chime of gold,… All
- Into love and out again, Thus I went and thus I go. Spare your voice, and hold your pen: Well and bitterly I know All… All
- 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. Oh,… Art
- This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. Aside
- They sicken of the calm who know the storm. Adventure
- The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. Bored
- Brevity is the soul of lingerie. Advice
- If wild my breast and sore my pride, I bask in dreams of suicide, If cool my heart and high my head I think 'How… Bask
- 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… Beautiful
- Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses. Girl
- All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted. All
- I like to have a martini, Two at the very most. After three I'm under the table, after four I'm under my host. Alcohol
- Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants. All
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