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I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I'm under the table,
After four I'm under my host!


Dorothy Parker

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I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I'm under the table,
afte...
DOROTHY PARKER I wish I could drink like a lady / I can take one or two at the most / Three and I'm under the table...
DOROTHY PARKER Im okay Im okay now.
But you really need to listen to me
'cause im telling you the trut...
GERARD WAY Im still runnin against the wind
Well Im older now and still
Against the wind
BOB SEGER Don't run away.
Im not running away. Im already gone.
-Lena and Ethan
KAMI GARCIA Could just feed 'im to the dogs, Prez," Bucket drawled. "Wouldn't have to feed 'em for a whole fucki...
MADELINE SHEEHAN revolver under my bed as im pouring liquor out
NOBLE DA GENIUS Into the wind we vary,
Our hearts free of youth,
Mold me into envy,
If I can’t have...
ADRIANNA STEPIANO Your words don't match your vibe,
& im trusting my gut this time.
NIKKI ROWE I keep going back
as if Im looking for something I have lost
back to the motherland, siste...
HEATHER NOVA My maid never sweeps under the bed
so I asked her to do so today.
Found a pen, three pai...
SANHITA BARUAH So, you're the man who can't spell 'fuck.'"
Dorothy Parker to Norman Mailer after publishers h...
DOROTHY PARKER have i gone mad?
im afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usualy are.
LEWIS CARROLL shane:do we have a choice
michael:dont think so
shane:then screw im gitting tired lets go...
RACHEL CAINE so what brings you to the doctor today?"
"hmm, im afraid i have the chronic desire to save peop...
DEB CALETTI Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way."
"Funny name for an aircraft...
GORDON KORMAN Of a water that flows,
With a lullaby sound,
From a spring but a very few
Feet under ground...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Roads go ever ever on
Under cloud and under star,
Yet feet that wandering have gone
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I ope ya don't mind, Charlie, but I borrowed one a ya effs.'
'Ya did?'
'Yeah.' he smiled. ...
ROBERT NEWTON My prayer for you:
Know the Lord in greater depth.
Abide in the presence of God.
Live...
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA VIDEO ARCHIVE-
INTERVIEW 24768 . GOLD-EYE
I like trees… grass… only birds in sky. Peop...
GARTH NIX why can't you see i'm a kid', said the kid.
Why try to make me like you?
Why are you hurt ...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN PJ's suggested chant, for pointless protest marches:

"Five, four, three, two.
We don...
P.J. O'ROURKE Im not going to change my ways,
just to please you or appease you,
inside a crowd five b...
DAVE MATTHEWS BAND »Das Prinzip Moral verstehe ich nicht.«
»Das überrascht mich nicht im geringsten.«
CHRISTOPHER MOORE Des Menschen Kraft, im Dichter offenbart
The human power is revealed by poet
Il potere del...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Like the rainbow
after the rain
joy will reveal itself
after sorrow
RUPI KAUR I had spent the day
friendless, lonely and sad,
a stranger to myself.


GULZAR Where the bee sucks, there suck I:
In a cowslip's bell I lie;
There I couch when owls do cr...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Three-under after two weeks of really no golf, I can't complain,
ANNIKA SORENSTAM listen, a goad's anything that provokes or incites an enemy
---
let me have a go: cursed d...
JONATHAN STROUD The first music I ever heard
was only one hundred and sixty days
after I was conceived. ...
KAMAND KOJOURI One, two, three, Im gon be crazy and free.
NICK I'm baking an apple pie tonight, and I dont care Mr.Carb.. Im eating it at 10pm with ice cream,. Tak...
NERISSA IRVING Heart beats are marching like thousands of drums,
Birds find their flight, thrown out of nest,<...
ALEKSANDRA NINKOVIC Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue an...
W.B. YEATS Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and ...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Roads go ever ever on,
Over rock and under tree,
By caves where never sun has shone,
...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN At Blackwater Pond

At Blackwater Pond the tossed waters have settled
after a...
MARY OLIVER Wanting to Die

Since you ask, most days I cannot remember.
I walk in my clothing, u...
ANNE SEXTON [novan]: bassists are very good with their fingers
[novan]: and some of us sing backup vocals, ...
JESS C. SCOTT and even the trees we walked
under
seemed
less than
trees
and more like eve...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Have to Find

...life
...is
...a—
...gamble
...after
...all.
ELLEN HOPKINS -You forgot something important!
-What?
-It's under my sweater!
-WHAT?!
-Me!
CORNELIA FUNKE But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread sof...
W.B. YEATS Life was good
before I
met
the monster.
After,
life
was great
...
ELLEN HOPKINS El remanso de aire
bajo la rama del eco.

El remanso del agua
bajo fronda de luc...
FEDERICO GARCíA LORCA Nicht an die Güter hänge dein Herz,
Die das Leben vergänglich zieren!
Wer besitzt, der ...
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER it was more like two scared kids huddling in the dark when they knew the monster under the bed wasn'...
LAURELL K. HAMILTON Only five books tonight, Mommy," she says.
No, Olivia, just one."
How about four?"
Tw...
IAN FALCONER tanith: have you called the police?
fergus: they, uh, they said theyd call by this afternoon. DEREK LANDY Keith started 4-2-3-3, so he was three under after four, but he had some problems after that.
DENNIS SWIRSKY A—ris—ta?” Degan asked, sounding horse. “What is it?”
“A rat bit me,” she said, o...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN My surface is myself.
Under which
to witness, youth is
buried. Roots?
Everybody ...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS The white saucer like some full moon descends
At last from the clouds of the table above;
...
HAROLD MONRO She raised her hand to cut me off. "I am aware of your epistolary flirtation. Which is all well and ...
DAVID LEVITHAN ...I just pulled a pretty big job and needed to hide out for awhile."
"...Where's all the loot...
EOIN COLFER Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend,
Before we too into the Dust descend;
Dust into...
OMAR KHAYYáM You've heard of vampires?"
I nodded.
"You've heard of werwolves?"
"Of course."
"...
AMY PLUM Ah God! to see the branches stir
Across the moon at Grantchester!
To smell the thrilling...
RUPERT BROOKE in the afterglow
of an evening rain

i lay down
in the grass
and think of ...
SANOBER KHAN Each night I am nailed into place
and forget who I am.
Daddy?
That's another kind of...
ANNE SEXTON It cannot be seen, cannot be felt,
Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt,
It lies behind stars ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Inventory:

"Four be the things I am wiser to know:
Idleness, sorrow, a friend...
DOROTHY PARKER I am an artist, my hair is rarely tamed & sometimes I sleep till noon,
My house is messy a...
NIKKI ROWE Im hoping that shell talk after the ride about her experiences and the foundation a bit.
GABRIELLE MURPHY Yaicha is named after a song
by some group from the last century called the
Pousette-Dart ...
THALIA CHALTAS We're just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl,
Year after year,
Running over t...
ROGER WATERS They're still looking at him," she said to Magnus under her breath. "At Will, I mean."

"O...
CASSANDRA CLARE Wir wollen ein Volk der guten Nachbarn sein und werden, im Innern und nach außen.“

...
WILLY BRANDT How many remember where they were when the war began on the 1st of September 1939?

I rem...
DANIEL DELACY Isabel's infamous tweets ranged from the cartoonish and impossible:
Im going to pull ur tongue ...
GOLDY MOLDAVSKY Under the Earth I go,
On the oak leaf I stand.
I ride on the filly
That was never foaled,<...
ANON. We find
ourselves in a much different place in our lifecycle than that product
is and we c...
BRIAN CURRY The only wisdom we can hope to acquire
Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.
T.S. ELIOT The small hand of a clock taps me at one and two, three and four, whispering hello, get up, stand up...
TAHEREH MAFI Idols of the injury,
dug in behind the least understood
motor plan information.
The v...
BILL ECTRIC I see a bright
portion
under the overhead light

that shades into
darkness<...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI He joined Jude in the kitchen and began making a salad, and JB slumped to the dining-room table and ...
HANYA YANAGIHARA In the dark I rest,
unready for the light which dawns
day after day,
eager to be shar...
DENISE LEVERTOV Why a raven?"
"To honor my father."
"The writing under it, is that Cyrillic?"
"Yes."<...
ILONA ANDREWS Four be the things I am wiser to know:
Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
Four be the th...
DOROTHY PARKER I am certain,
my love,
that poetry was born
only after your birth.
KAMAND KOJOURI Night falls fast.
Today is in the past.

Blown from the dark hill hither to my door EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY I see you and St. John have been quarrelling, Jane,' said Diana, 'during your walk on the moor. But ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë It's beautiful," said Mort softly. "What is it?"

THE SUN IS UNDER THE DISC, said Death. TERRY PRATCHETT Beckett started the Hummer and texted Eve:
Tak4e Ur Cloth3s OFF Im on my qway
Her reply ca...
DEBRA ANASTASIA Live free or die.
Four words. Thirteen letters. Ridges, bumps, swirls under my fingertips.
LAUREN OLIVER He got on a roll early, I think he was three-under after four holes and he hit everything the right ...
RETIEF GOOSEN What was it like to love him? Asked Gratitude.
It was like being exhumed, I answered, and broug...
LANG LEAV I was fairly poor
but most of my money went
for wine and
classical music.
I love...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI The Tea Party

I had a little tea party
This afternoon at three.
'Twas very smal...
JESSICA NELSON NORTH The Iraqi sun quickly heated the air to an unbearable one
hundred twenty three degree’s, caus...
THOMAS FERREOLUS Things like,
Brothers and sisters!
Saving money!
Setting the table!
True love......
MARCY HEISLER Anything can happen in the blink of an eye. Anything at all.
One.
Two.
Three.
Bl...
MEG CABOT My favorite six letter word is
always
because it promises
so much.

My favo...
KATE DICAMILLO This was a conversation I had with a so-called-fellow-trekkie the other day:

''So Picard ...
MELANIE KAY TAYLOR Right!"
"Right!"
"You can get there!"
"I can get there!"
"You're a natural at co...
TERRY PRATCHETT we are at the crossroads, my little outlaw,
and this is the map of my heart, the landscape
RICHARD SIKEN People are not an interruption of our business. People are our business.

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That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it...
DOROTHY PARKER You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.
DOROTHY PARKER Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.
DOROTHY PARKER I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.
DOROTHY PARKER The friends I made have slipped and strayed.
And who's the one that cares
A trifling lot and...
DOROTHY PARKER Work is the province of cattle.
DOROTHY PARKER Once when I was young and true,
Someone left me sad-
Broke my brittle heart in two;
And ...
DOROTHY PARKER Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts a...
DOROTHY PARKER If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it'...
DOROTHY PARKER This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.
DOROTHY PARKER Oh, it is sure as it is sad
That any lad is every lad,
And what's a girl, to dare implore DOROTHY PARKER I never see the prettiest thing -
A cherry bough gone white with Spring -
But what I think, Ho...
DOROTHY PARKER The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out ...
DOROTHY PARKER The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out o...
DOROTHY PARKER If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
DOROTHY PARKER Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
DOROTHY PARKER By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing.
And he vows his passion is,
...
DOROTHY PARKER Oh seek, my love, your newer way;
I'll not be left in sorrow.
So long as I have yesterday DOROTHY PARKER If I didn't care for fun and such,
I'd probably amount to much.
But I shall stay the way I...
DOROTHY PARKER She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.
DOROTHY PARKER If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised.
DOROTHY PARKER That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.
DOROTHY PARKER Inventory:

"Four be the things I am wiser to know:
Idleness, sorrow, a friend...
DOROTHY PARKER If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do the...
DOROTHY PARKER There's little in taking or giving
There's little in water or wine
This living, this livin...
DOROTHY PARKER Where's the man that could ease a heart like a satin gown?
DOROTHY PARKER In youth, it was a way I had,
To do my best to please.
And change, with every passing lad<...
DOROTHY PARKER I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
DOROTHY PARKER Some men break your heart in two,
Some men fawn and flatter,
Some men never look at you; DOROTHY PARKER All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were a...
DOROTHY PARKER Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
DOROTHY PARKER There's a helluva distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply...
DOROTHY PARKER Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a poi...
DOROTHY PARKER I never thought that heav'n would lose its blue
And sullen storm-clouds mask the gentle sky; DOROTHY PARKER All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't si...
DOROTHY PARKER I shall stay the way I am because I do not give a damn.
DOROTHY PARKER They sicken at the calm that know the storm.
DOROTHY PARKER They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.
DOROTHY PARKER Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
DOROTHY PARKER He'd have given me rolling lands,
Houses of marble, and billowing farms,
Pearls, to trickle ...
DOROTHY PARKER Why is it no one ever sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my ...
DOROTHY PARKER By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing,
And he vows his passion is
Infi...
DOROTHY PARKER Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn, the word
DOROTHY PARKER They laid their hands upon my head,
They stroked my cheek and brow;
And time could heal a hu...
DOROTHY PARKER Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
DOROTHY PARKER Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.
DOROTHY PARKER I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back ...
DOROTHY PARKER Gratitude -- the meanest and most sniveling attribute in the world.
DOROTHY PARKER I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
DOROTHY PARKER Where's the man could ease a heart, like a satin gown?
DOROTHY PARKER Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
DOROTHY PARKER Four be the things I am wiser to know:
Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
Four be the th...
DOROTHY PARKER Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.
DOROTHY PARKER Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (B...
DOROTHY PARKER It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard.
DOROTHY PARKER He Robert Benchley and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.
DOROTHY PARKER And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned; The calmer, I, to see it tru...
DOROTHY PARKER Every year, back come Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground al...
DOROTHY PARKER Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.
DOROTHY PARKER He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.
DOROTHY PARKER Her mind lives tidily, apart From cold and noise and pain, And bolts the door against her heart, Out...
DOROTHY PARKER His voice was intimate as the rustle of sheets.
DOROTHY PARKER Sorrow is tranquillity remembered in emotion.
DOROTHY PARKER I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicul...
DOROTHY PARKER Men don't like nobility in woman. Not any men. I suppose it is because the men like to have the cop...
DOROTHY PARKER Well, there are always those who cannot distinguish between glitter and glamour . . . the glamour of...
DOROTHY PARKER I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
DOROTHY PARKER The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
DOROTHY PARKER This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
DOROTHY PARKER When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken.
DOROTHY PARKER Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to u...
DOROTHY PARKER Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world.
DOROTHY PARKER Scratch a lover, and find a foe.
DOROTHY PARKER It's not the tragedies that kill us, it's the messes.
DOROTHY PARKER Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never ...
DOROTHY PARKER Misfortune tests friends, and detects enemies
DOROTHY PARKER Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded
wheelchair.
DOROTHY PARKER Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
DOROTHY PARKER Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses.
DOROTHY PARKER Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone
DOROTHY PARKER Razors pain you; rivers are damp; acids stain you; and drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful; nooses...
DOROTHY PARKER I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things....
DOROTHY PARKER DOROTHY PARKER Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night.
DOROTHY PARKER I never see that prettiest thing-
A cherry bough gone white with Spring-
But what I think,...
DOROTHY PARKER Résumé
Razors pain you,
Rivers are damp,
Acids stain you,
And drugs cau...
DOROTHY PARKER The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant - and let the air out ...
DOROTHY PARKER The only "ism" Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
DOROTHY PARKER If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit suprised.
DOROTHY PARKER The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the prettiest love stories ...
DOROTHY PARKER My land is bare of chattering folk;
the clouds are low along the ridges,
and sweet's the air...
DOROTHY PARKER One more drink and I'll be under the host.
DOROTHY PARKER Ducking for apples - change one letter and it's the story of my life.
DOROTHY PARKER I went to a convent in New York and was fired finally for my insistence that the Immaculate Concepti...
DOROTHY PARKER Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is thing that can n...
DOROTHY PARKER Scratch an actor - and you'll find an actress.
DOROTHY PARKER I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
DOROTHY PARKER Travel, trouble, music, art,
A kiss, a frock, a rhyme -
I never said they feed my heart, DOROTHY PARKER Men seldom make passes
At girls who wear glasses.
DOROTHY PARKER That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it wa...
DOROTHY PARKER Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.
DOROTHY PARKER If wild my breast and sore my pride,
I bask in dreams of suicide,
If cool my heart and high ...
DOROTHY PARKER If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised.
DOROTHY PARKER I've never been a millionaire but I just know I'd be darling at it.
DOROTHY PARKER I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound -...
DOROTHY PARKER I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true.
DOROTHY PARKER A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
DOROTHY PARKER The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of t...
DOROTHY PARKER Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can...
DOROTHY PARKER Art is a form of catharsis.
DOROTHY PARKER I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I'm under the table,
afte...
DOROTHY PARKER The two most beautiful words in the English language are: Check Enclosed.
DOROTHY PARKER If, with the literate, I am/ Impelled to try an epigram,/ I never seek to take the credit;/ We all a...
DOROTHY PARKER Q: What's the difference between an enzyme and a hormone?

A: You can't hear an enzyme.
DOROTHY PARKER Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life.
DOROTHY PARKER She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go.
DOROTHY PARKER I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
DOROTHY PARKER This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it."
DOROTHY PARKER Tell him I was too fucking busy-- or vice versa.
DOROTHY PARKER Don't look at me in that tone of voice.
DOROTHY PARKER tomorrow's gone-we'll have tonight!
DOROTHY PARKER This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.
DOROTHY PARKER He has a capacity for enjoyment so vast that he gives away great chunks to those about him, and neve...
DOROTHY PARKER This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it.
DOROTHY PARKER Woman wants monogamy; / Man delights in novelty. / Love is woman's moon and sun; / Man has other for...
DOROTHY PARKER I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy.
DOROTHY PARKER The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.
DOROTHY PARKER If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be ...
DOROTHY PARKER Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
DOROTHY PARKER I am never going to be famous...I do not do anything. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails,...
DOROTHY PARKER Excuse my dust
DOROTHY PARKER Check enclosed.
DOROTHY PARKER Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common.
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...
DOROTHY PARKER There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
DOROTHY PARKER A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
DOROTHY PARKER Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never g...
DOROTHY PARKER Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
DOROTHY PARKER "The House Beautiful" is the play lousy
DOROTHY PARKER I won't telephone him. I'll never telephone him again as long as I live. He'll rot in hell, before I...
DOROTHY PARKER And if my heart be scarred and burned,
The safer, I, for all I learned.
DOROTHY PARKER I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back ...
DOROTHY PARKER Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
DOROTHY PARKER Prince or commoner, tenor or bass,
Painter or plumber or never-do-well,
Do me a favor and ...
DOROTHY PARKER They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
DOROTHY PARKER I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
DOROTHY PARKER I don't know," she said. "We used to squabble a lot when we were going together and then engaged and...
DOROTHY PARKER As only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night.
DOROTHY PARKER We're glad to have been taken seriously. What we're looking for is that if we walk into a Pick 'n Sa...
DOROTHY PARKER We wanted corporate to know we expected better.
DOROTHY PARKER . . . as for helping me in the outside world, the Convent taught me only that if you spit on a penci...
DOROTHY PARKER And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the r...
DOROTHY PARKER [We look like] a road company of the Last Supper.
DOROTHY PARKER If all the girls who attended the Harvard-Yale game were laid end to end, I wouldn't be surprised
DOROTHY PARKER I misremember who first was cruel enough to nurture the cocktail party into life. But perhaps it wou...
DOROTHY PARKER She (Katherine Hepburn) runs the gamut of emotions from A to B
DOROTHY PARKER Every love's the love before in a duller dress
DOROTHY PARKER This living, this living, this living/ Was never a project of mine.
DOROTHY PARKER The doctors were very brave about it.
DOROTHY PARKER I want people to learn something they didn't know, ... We hope people have fun and learn about our c...
DOROTHY PARKER This is on me.
DOROTHY PARKER That woman speaks 18 languages and can't say "No" in any of them
DOROTHY PARKER Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship.
DOROTHY PARKER Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts a...
DOROTHY PARKER Some men break your heart in two,/ Some men fawn and flatter,/ Some men never look at you;/ And that...
DOROTHY PARKER I can't write five words but that I change seven.
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 th...
DOROTHY PARKER Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart.
DOROTHY PARKER Authors and actors and artists and such - Never know nothing, and never know much
DOROTHY PARKER You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think.
DOROTHY PARKER It's a small apartment, I've barely enough room to lay my hat and a few friends.
DOROTHY PARKER Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow.
DOROTHY PARKER Excuse me, everybody, I have to go to the bathroom. I really have to telephone, but I'm too embarras...
DOROTHY PARKER Somebody was using the pencil.
DOROTHY PARKER That would be a good thing for them to carve on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it ...
DOROTHY PARKER A list of authors who have made themselves most beloved and therefore, most comfortable financially,...
DOROTHY PARKER I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be a darling at it.
DOROTHY PARKER Byron and Shelley and Keats/ Were a trio of lyrical treats.
DOROTHY PARKER That woman speaks eight languages and can't say no in any of them.
DOROTHY PARKER "Cheque enclosed" are the two most beautiful words in the English language
DOROTHY PARKER She looks as new as a peeled egg
DOROTHY PARKER She looks like something that would eat its young
DOROTHY PARKER I was fired from there, finally, for a lot of things, among them my insistence that the Immaculate C...
DOROTHY PARKER By the time you swear you are his, shivering and sighing, And he vows his passion is infinite and un...
DOROTHY PARKER Too fucking busy, and vice versa. [Reply to her editor who was bugging her for her belated work whil...
DOROTHY PARKER They sicken of the calm, who know the storm
DOROTHY PARKER People are more fun than any body
DOROTHY PARKER I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicule...
DOROTHY PARKER I suppose that now if I ever wrote a play about myself I'd be sued for plagiarism
DOROTHY PARKER There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simp...
DOROTHY PARKER Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
DOROTHY PARKER Lips that taste of tears, they say/ Are the best for kissing.
DOROTHY PARKER I wish I could drink like a lady / I can take one or two at the most / Three and I'm under the table...
DOROTHY PARKER My land is bare of chattering folk; / the clouds are low along the ridges, / and sweet's the air wit...
DOROTHY PARKER The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe!
DOROTHY PARKER This is on me. [suggested for her tombstone]
DOROTHY PARKER Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to exci...
DOROTHY PARKER Money is only congealed snow.
DOROTHY PARKER Why, that dog is practically a Phi Beta Kappa. She can sit up and beg, and she can give her paw -- I...
DOROTHY PARKER I hate writing, I love having written.
DOROTHY PARKER