Dorothy Parker quotes - page 4

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 give a damn. (Dorothy Parker)
By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this -- One of you is lying.
Dorothy Parker
I'd like to have money. And I'd like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that's too adorable, I'd rather have money.
Dorothy Parker
It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.
Dorothy Parker
The only "ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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
Now, look, baby, 'Union' is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
Dorothy Parker
I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
Dorothy Parker
His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
Dorothy Parker
There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
Dorothy Parker
I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours. (Dorothy Parker)
Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
Dorothy Parker
I can't write five words but that I change seven.
Dorothy Parker
Friends come and go but I wouldn't have thought you'd be one of them.
Dorothy Parker
Mrs. Ewing was a short woman who accepted the obligation borne by so many short women to make up in vivacity what they lack in number of inches from the ground.
Dorothy Parker
Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
Dorothy Parker
I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.
Dorothy Parker
Hold your pen and spare your voice.
Dorothy Parker
The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe!
Dorothy Parker
Her mind lives tidily, apart from cold and noise and pain. And bolts the door against her heart, out wailing in the rain.
Dorothy Parker
Once, when I was young and true. Someone left me sad - Broke my brittle heart in two; And that is very bad. Love is for unlucky folk, Love is but a curse. Once there was a heart I broke; And that, I think, is worse. (Dorothy Parker)
She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go.
Dorothy Parker
The plot is so tired that even this reviewer, who in infancy was let drop by a nurse with the result that she has ever since been mystified by amateur coin tricks, was able to guess the identity of the murderer from the middle of the book.
Dorothy Parker
Travel, trouble, music, art, a kiss, a frock, a rhyme -- I never said they feed my heart, but still they pass my time.
Dorothy Parker
All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted.
Dorothy Parker