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Dorothy Parker quotes: Upton Sinclair is his own King Charles' head. He cannot keep himself out of his writings, try though he may; or, by this time, try though he doesn't. Upton Sinclair is his own King Charles' head. He cannot keep himself out of his writings, try though he may; or, by this time, try though he doesn't.
Dorothy Parker quotes: Hold your pen and spare your voice. Hold your pen and spare your voice.
Dorothy Parker quotes: She is happy, for she knowsThat her dust is very pretty She is happy, for she knows
That her dust is very pretty
Dorothy Parker quotes: Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year. Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
Dorothy Parker quotes: Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker. Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
Dorothy Parker quotes: Time doth flit; oh shit. Time doth flit; oh shit.
Dorothy Parker quotes: Civilization is coming to an end, you understand. Civilization is coming to an end, you understand.
Dorothy Parker quotes: Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studdedwheelchair. Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded
wheelchair.
Dorothy Parker quotes: She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go. She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go.
Dorothy Parker quotes: The two most beautiful words in the English language are 'cheque enclosed. The two most beautiful words in the English language are 'cheque enclosed.
Dorothy Parker quotes: People are more fun than anyone. People are more fun than anyone.
Dorothy Parker quotes: 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. 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.
Dorothy Parker quotes: Then if my friendships break and bend, There's little need to cry The while I know that every foe Is faithful till I die. Then if my friendships break and bend, There's little need to cry The while I know that every foe Is faithful till I die.
Dorothy Parker quotes: [To the British actor who annoyed her by repeated references to his busy 'shedule':] I think you're full of skit. [To the British actor who annoyed her by repeated references to his busy 'shedule':] I think you're full of skit.
Dorothy Parker quotes: Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city. Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
Dorothy Parker quotes: As I was saying to the landlord only this morning: 'You can't have everything'. As I was saying to the landlord only this morning: 'You can't have everything'.
Dorothy Parker quotes: And let her loves, when she is deadWrite this above her bones, No more she lives to give us breadWho asked her only stones. And let her loves, when she is dead
Write this above her bones,
No more she lives to give us bread
Who asked her only stones.
Dorothy Parker quotes: Her big heart did not, as is so sadly often the case, inhabit a big bosom. Her big heart did not, as is so sadly often the case, inhabit a big bosom.
Dorothy Parker quotes: The Swiss are a neat and an industrious people, none of whom is under seventy-five years of age. The Swiss are a neat and an industrious people, none of whom is under seventy-five years of age.
Dorothy Parker quotes: A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts. A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
Dorothy Parker quotes: I think that the direction in which a writer should look is around. I think that the direction in which a writer should look is around.
Dorothy Parker quotes: But I don't give up; I forget why not. But I don't give up; I forget why not.
Dorothy Parker quotes: A girl's best friend is her mutter. A girl's best friend is her mutter.
Dorothy Parker quotes: The Monte Carlo casino refused to admit me until I was properly dressed so I went and found my stockings, and then came back and lost my shirt. The Monte Carlo casino refused to admit me until I was properly dressed so I went and found my stockings, and then came back and lost my shirt.
Dorothy Parker quotes: I'll have a martini...two at the most. Three, I'm under the table...four, I'm under the host. I'll have a martini...two at the most. Three, I'm under the table...four, I'm under the host.
Dorothy Parker quotes: He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight. He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
Dorothy Parker quotes: [On Edna Ferber's Ice Palace] ... the book, which is going to be a movie, has the plot and characters of a book which is going to be a movie. [On Edna Ferber's Ice Palace] ... the book, which is going to be a movie, has the plot and characters of a book which is going to be a movie.
Dorothy Parker quotes: Drink and dance and laugh and lie,Love, the reeling midnight through,For tomorrow we shall die!(But, alas, we never do.) Drink and dance and laugh and lie,
Love, the reeling midnight through,
For tomorrow we shall die!
(But, alas, we never do.)
Dorothy Parker quotes: Said of her husband on the day their divorce became final: Oh, don't worry about Alan ... Alan will always land on somebody's feet. Said of her husband on the day their divorce became final: Oh, don't worry about Alan ... Alan will always land on somebody's feet.
Dorothy Parker quotes: His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets. His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
Dorothy Parker quotes: Q: What's the difference between an enzyme and a hormone?A: You can't hear an enzyme. Q: What's the difference between an enzyme and a hormone?
A: You can't hear an enzyme.
Dorothy Parker quotes: And if my heart be scarred and burned,The safer, I, for all I learned. And if my heart be scarred and burned,
The safer, I, for all I learned.
Dorothy Parker quotes: 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 lucky are the dead. 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 lucky are the dead.
Dorothy Parker quotes: Ah, clear they see and true they sayThat one shall weep, and one shall stray Ah, clear they see and true they say
That one shall weep, and one shall stray
Dorothy Parker quotes: Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it. Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
Dorothy Parker quotes: The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires. The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
Dorothy Parker quotes: I'm of the glamorous ladies At whose beckoning history shook. But you are a man, and see only my pan, So I stay at home with a book. I'm of the glamorous ladies At whose beckoning history shook. But you are a man, and see only my pan, So I stay at home with a book.
Dorothy Parker quotes: Everybody's got their troubles. Everybody's got their troubles.
Dorothy Parker quotes: Accursed from their birth they be Who seek to find monogamy, Pursuing it from bed to bed - I think they would be better dead. Accursed from their birth they be Who seek to find monogamy, Pursuing it from bed to bed - I think they would be better dead.
Dorothy Parker quotes: Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available. Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
Dorothy Parker quotes: It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes. It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes.
Dorothy Parker quotes: Tonstant Weader fwowed up. Tonstant Weader fwowed up.
Dorothy Parker quotes: People are more than fun than anybody. People are more than fun than anybody.
Dorothy Parker quotes: I never see that prettiest thing- A cherry bough gone white with Spring- But what I think, How gay 'twould be To hang me from a flowering tree. I never see that prettiest thing- A cherry bough gone white with Spring- But what I think, How gay 'twould be To hang me from a flowering tree.
Dorothy Parker quotes: Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both. Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
Dorothy Parker quotes: I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them. I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
Dorothy Parker quotes: Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common. Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common.
Dorothy Parker quotes: This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
Dorothy Parker quotes: Four things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
Dorothy Parker quotes: One more drink and I'd have been under the host. One more drink and I'd have been under the host.
Dorothy Parker quotes: Oh, both my shoes are shiny new,And pristine is my hatMy dress is 1922 ... My life is all like that. Oh, both my shoes are shiny new,
And pristine is my hat
My dress is 1922 ...
My life is all like that.
Dorothy Parker quotes: 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! 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 quotes: He and I had an office so tiny, that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery. He and I had an office so tiny, that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.
Dorothy Parker quotes: Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened! Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
Dorothy Parker quotes: What writes worse than a Theodore Dreiser? ... Two Theodore Dreisers. What writes worse than a Theodore Dreiser? ... Two Theodore Dreisers.
Dorothy Parker quotes: Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave. Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
Dorothy Parker quotes: There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it. There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
Dorothy Parker quotes: I know that ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon. I know that ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
Dorothy Parker quotes: Every fashion, the fashion before: in a duller dress. Every fashion, the fashion before: in a duller dress.
Dorothy Parker quotes: [On Lou Tellegen's Women Have Been Kind:] The book ... has all the elegance of a quirked little finger and all the glitter of a pair of new rubbers. [On Lou Tellegen's Women Have Been Kind:] The book ... has all the elegance of a quirked little finger and all the glitter of a pair of new rubbers.
Dorothy Parker quotes: Some men break your heart in two, Some men fawn and flatter, Some men never look at you; And that cleans up the matter. Some men break your heart in two, Some men fawn and flatter, Some men never look at you; And that cleans up the matter.
Dorothy Parker quotes: Hollywood is the one place on earth where you could die of encouragement. Hollywood is the one place on earth where you could die of encouragement.
Dorothy Parker quotes: You were perfectly fine. You were perfectly fine.
Dorothy Parker quotes: Authors and actors and artists and such - Never know nothing, and never know much. Authors and actors and artists and such - Never know nothing, and never know much.
Dorothy Parker quotes: Somebody was using the pencil. Somebody was using the pencil.
Dorothy Parker quotes: Never throw mud. You may miss your mark, but you will have dirty hands. Never throw mud. You may miss your mark, but you will have dirty hands.
Dorothy Parker quotes: Why is it no one sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect rose. Why is it no one sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect rose.
Dorothy Parker quotes: The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be. The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
Dorothy Parker quotes: As for helping me in the outside world, the Convent taught me only that if you spit on a pencil eraser, it will erase ink. As for helping me in the outside world, the Convent taught me only that if you spit on a pencil eraser, it will erase ink.
Dorothy Parker quotes: I've finally gotten to the bottom of things. I've finally gotten to the bottom of things.
Dorothy Parker quotes: She realizes she doesn't know as much as God but feels she knows as much as God knew when he was her age. She realizes she doesn't know as much as God but feels she knows as much as God knew when he was her age.
Dorothy Parker quotes: Trapped like a trap in a trap Trapped like a trap in a trap
Dorothy Parker quotes: If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised. If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
Dorothy Parker quotes: Friends come and go but I wouldn't have thought you'd be one of them Friends come and go but I wouldn't have thought you'd be one of them
Dorothy Parker quotes: LINSCOTT: Well, life certainly treats you fine.CONNIE: No, Tom. Life and I go Dutch. LINSCOTT: Well, life certainly treats you fine.
CONNIE: No, Tom. Life and I go Dutch.
Dorothy Parker quotes: Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye. Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
Dorothy Parker quotes: Art is a form of catharsis emotional release, purging, cleansing, purifying. Art is a form of catharsis emotional release, purging, cleansing, purifying.
Dorothy Parker quotes: You can't teach an old dogma new tricks. You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.
Dorothy Parker quotes: There was a reason for the cost of those perfectly plain black dresses. There was a reason for the cost of those perfectly plain black dresses.
Dorothy Parker quotes: I am at just that interesting age where i cannot keep out of things. I, too, must be in the know; I, too, must quote and sigh and nod wisely. I am at just that interesting age where i cannot keep out of things. I, too, must be in the know; I, too, must quote and sigh and nod wisely.
Dorothy Parker quotes: Where's the man that could ease a heart like a satin gown? Where's the man that could ease a heart like a satin gown?
Dorothy Parker quotes: I've seen the way he dances; it looks like something you do on Saint Walpurgis Night. I've seen the way he dances; it looks like something you do on Saint Walpurgis Night.
Dorothy Parker quotes: All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
Dorothy Parker quotes: At birth the Devil touched my tongue. At birth the Devil touched my tongue.
Dorothy Parker quotes: The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink. The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
Dorothy Parker quotes: I was the toast of two continents: Greenland and Australia. I was the toast of two continents: Greenland and Australia.
Dorothy Parker quotes: [On hearing that President Coolidge was dead:] How can you tell? [On hearing that President Coolidge was dead:] How can you tell?
Dorothy Parker quotes: She dreamed by day of never again putting on tight shoes, of never having to laugh and listen and admire, of never more being a good sport. Never. She dreamed by day of never again putting on tight shoes, of never having to laugh and listen and admire, of never more being a good sport. Never.
Dorothy Parker quotes: A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika. A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
Dorothy Parker quotes: Why, after all, should readers never be harrowed? Surely there is enough happiness in life without having to go to books for it. Why, after all, should readers never be harrowed? Surely there is enough happiness in life without having to go to books for it.
Dorothy Parker quotes: Please don't let me hope, dear God. Please don't. I Please don't let me hope, dear God. Please don't. I
Dorothy Parker quotes: If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised. If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised.
Dorothy Parker quotes: When asked by her publisher why her work had not been submitted while on her honeymoon: I've been too fucking busy or vice versa When asked by her publisher why her work had not been submitted while on her honeymoon: I've been too fucking busy or vice versa
Dorothy Parker quotes: Brevity is the soul of lingerie. Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
Dorothy Parker quotes: Prince or commoner, tenor or bass,Painter or plumber or never-do-well,Do me a favor and shut your face -Poets alone should kiss and tell. Prince or commoner, tenor or bass,
Painter or plumber or never-do-well,
Do me a favor and shut your face -
Poets alone should kiss and tell.
Dorothy Parker quotes: It was written without fear and without research. It was written without fear and without research.
Dorothy Parker quotes: When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken. When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken.
Dorothy Parker quotes: Honest, I won't ever do it again. I'll go straight, after this. I'll never go to bed again, if I can only sleep now. Honest, I won't ever do it again. I'll go straight, after this. I'll never go to bed again, if I can only sleep now.
Dorothy Parker quotes: Yes, I once was the toast of two continents! ( ... Greenland & Australia). Yes, I once was the toast of two continents! ( ... Greenland & Australia).
Dorothy Parker quotes: The affair between Margot Asquinth and Margot Asquinth will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature. The affair between Margot Asquinth and Margot Asquinth will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature.

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