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She is happy, for she knowsThat 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
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
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[On Dashiell Hammett:] ... he is so hard-boiled you could roll him on the White House lawn.
— 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
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[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
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
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
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
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[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
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
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
I wish, I wish I were a poisonous bacterium.
— Dorothy Parker
Somebody was using the pencil.
— Dorothy Parker
Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.
— 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
[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 beforeIn a duller dress. — Dorothy Parker
I've finally gotten to the bottom of things.
— Dorothy Parker