Dorothy Parker quotes - page 3

For a few minutes, everything is so cute that the mind reels.... And then, believe it or not, things get worse. So I shot myself. (Dorothy Parker)
Oh, both my shoes are shiny new, And pristine is my hat My dress is 1922... My life is all like that.
Dorothy Parker
Gertrude Stein did us the most harm when she said, 'You're all a lost generation.' That got around to certain people and we all said, 'Whee! We're lost.
Dorothy Parker
If the English version is in what, in our youth, we used to speak of affectionately as dear old iambic pentameter, the actors mercifully abstain from reciting it that way; they speak their lines as good, hardy prose.
Dorothy Parker
If you arrive late, you won't know what anything is about, and if you are there all the way from the beginning, you won't care.
Dorothy Parker
Dotty had Great Big Visions of Quietude. Dotty saw an Ad, and it Left her Flat. Dotty had a Great Big Snifter of Cyanide. And that (said Dotty) Is that.
Dorothy Parker
You know how a play in dialect is. At the first act, you think, "How quaint!"; at the second act, you wish they would either stop using dialect or keep quiet; and at the third act, you wish you hadn't come. And Tillie, may I mention in passing, has four acts.
Dorothy Parker
It is advertised as "a seagoin' comedy,” and anytime they go leaving off the final g that way, you know what to expect.
Dorothy Parker
Rockliffe Fellowes gives a likable performance of the secondary crook's rôle, and there are some decidedly agreeable-looking doughnuts consumed in the first act. And that is about all one can say for Pot Luck.
Dorothy Parker
Anyone can do that-the stunt lies in not doing it.
Dorothy Parker
The management's method of procedure is evidently to hire some well-known man to write the book, and then, as soon as it is written, to give it away to some deserving family, and go out and engage an assortment of specialty acts. (Dorothy Parker)
To quote the only line of Gertrude Stein's which I have ever been able to understand, "It is wonderful how I am not interested."
Dorothy Parker
Almost overnight, Dorothy Parker was transformed from a woman of letters into a gin-soaked quote machine, with a martini in one hand and a dagger in the other.
Dorothy Parker
Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
Dorothy Parker
The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.
Dorothy Parker
Don't look at me in that tone of voice.
Dorothy Parker
A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
Dorothy Parker
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
Dorothy Parker
If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
Dorothy Parker
Writing well is the best revenge.
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)
Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
Dorothy Parker
Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!
Dorothy Parker
Women and elephants never forget.
Dorothy Parker
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
Dorothy Parker