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She is happy, for she knows
That her dust is very pretty — Dorothy Parker

Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year. — Dorothy Parker

Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker. — Dorothy Parker

He's always with me, he and all his beauty and his cruelty. — Dorothy Parker

Don't feel bad when I die; I've been dead for a long time. — Dorothy Parker

Civilization is coming to an end, you understand. — Dorothy Parker

Scratch a lover, and find a foe. — Dorothy Parker

Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves. — Dorothy Parker

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

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

Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world. — Dorothy Parker

The only "ism" Hollywood believes in is plagiarism. — Dorothy Parker

The House Beautiful is the play lousy. — Dorothy Parker

Anthologists are lazy fellows who like to spend a quiet evening at home raiding good books. — Dorothy Parker

Should they whisper false of you, never trouble to deny. Should the words they say be true, weep and storm and swear they lie! — Dorothy Parker

They sicken of the calm who know the storm. — Dorothy Parker

[On Dashiell Hammett:] ... he is so hard-boiled you could roll him on the White House lawn. — Dorothy Parker

[On being told their loquacious, domineering host was 'outspoken':] By whom? — Dorothy Parker

I'll have a martini...two at the most. Three, I'm under the table...four, I'm under the host. — Dorothy Parker

When you're awake, all the men go and fall for you -
Sleep, pretty lady, and give me a chance
(From the poem "Lullaby") — Dorothy Parker

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song — Dorothy Parker

[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

And I'll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds. — Dorothy Parker

Every fashion, the fashion before: in a duller dress. — Dorothy Parker

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

How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack. — Dorothy Parker

Three highballs, and I think I'm St. Francis of Assisi. — Dorothy Parker

Dear Mary: We all knew you had it in you. — Dorothy Parker

The sun's gone dim, and the moon's gone black. For I loved him, and he didn't love back. — Dorothy Parker

A hangover is the wrath of grapes. — Dorothy Parker

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

Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour. — Dorothy Parker

The definition of eternity is two people and a ham. — Dorothy Parker

Hollywood is the one place on earth where you could die of encouragement. — Dorothy Parker

[When asked what was the inspiration for most of her work:] Need of money, dear. — Dorothy Parker

If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you. — Dorothy Parker

Brevity is the soul of lingerie. — Dorothy Parker

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

[On an actor who'd broken her leg in London:] Oh, how terrible. She must have done it sliding down a barrister. — Dorothy Parker

I can't write five words but that I change seven. — Dorothy Parker

It was written without fear and without research. — Dorothy Parker

Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty. — Dorothy Parker

Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart. — Dorothy Parker

The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk. — Dorothy Parker

Eternity is a ham and two people. — Dorothy Parker

When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken. — Dorothy Parker

My land is bare of chattering folk; / the clouds are low along the ridges, / and sweet's the air with curly smoke / from all my burning bridges. — Dorothy Parker

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

You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think. — Dorothy Parker

Phoebe Wolkind Ephron cracked wise like Dorothy Parker and looked like Katharine Hepburn. — Hallie Ephron

All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted. — 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

Yes, I once was the toast of two continents! ( ... Greenland & Australia). — Dorothy Parker

The affair between Margot Asquinth and Margot Asquinth will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature. — Dorothy Parker

This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it.
[Women Know Everything!] — Dorothy Parker

She can sit up and beg, and
she can give her paw
I don't say she will, but she can. — Dorothy Parker

Scratch a king and find a fool! — Dorothy Parker

I give her sadness and the gift of pain,
a new moon madness and a love of rain. — Dorothy Parker

Trapped like a trap in a trap — Dorothy Parker

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, a medley of extemporanea, And love is a thing that can never go wrong, and I am Marie of Romania. — Dorothy Parker

This must be a gift book. That is to say a book, which you wouldn't take on any other terms. — Dorothy Parker

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

Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring. — Dorothy Parker

It costs me never a stab nor squirm / To tread by chance upon a worm. / Aha, my little dear, / I say, Your clan will pay me back one day. — Dorothy Parker

Friends come and go but I wouldn't have thought you'd be one of them — Dorothy Parker

[On Katharine Hepburn's stage performance:] She ran the whole gamut of emotions, from A to B. — Dorothy Parker

You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do. — Dorothy Parker

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

LINSCOTT: Well, life certainly treats you fine.
CONNIE: No, Tom. Life and I go Dutch. — Dorothy Parker

Their pooled emotions wouldn't fill a teaspoon. — Dorothy Parker

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye. — Dorothy Parker

Innocence is a desirable thing, a dainty thing, an appealing thing, in its place; but carried too far, it is merely ridiculous. — Dorothy Parker

Sunlight dusts them; Water is damp; Crosses pain them; And beheadings cause cramps - — Thomm Quackenbush

Art is a form of catharsis emotional release, purging, cleansing, purifying. — Dorothy Parker

You can't teach an old dogma new tricks. — Dorothy Parker

I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true. — Dorothy Parker

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away. — Dorothy Parker

There was a reason for the cost of those perfectly plain black dresses. — Dorothy Parker

And where does she find them? — Dorothy Parker

Women and elephants never forget. — 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

You were perfectly fine. — Dorothy Parker

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

Authors and actors and artists and such - Never know nothing, and never know much. — Dorothy Parker

I wish, I wish I were a poisonous bacterium. — Dorothy Parker

Somebody was using the pencil. — Dorothy Parker

I don't mind anything that's written about me, as long as it's not true. — Dorothy Parker

Never throw mud. You may miss your mark, but you will have dirty hands. — Dorothy Parker

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue. — Dorothy Parker

Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion. — Dorothy Parker

The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man. — Dorothy Parker

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

The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be. — Dorothy Parker

I know that ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon. — Dorothy Parker

You can't take it with you, and even if you did, it would probably melt. — Dorothy Parker

[To woman bragging about having kept her husband for seven years:] Don't worry, if you keep him long enough, he'll come back in style. — Dorothy Parker

Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are. — Dorothy Parker

Every love's the love before
In a duller dress. — Dorothy Parker

That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them. — Dorothy Parker

I've finally gotten to the bottom of things. — Dorothy Parker