She looks as new as a peeled egg
Dorothy Parker
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This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS As innocent as a new-laid egg.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Only fools wait, and only tools bait.
CRE There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ...
DWIGHT W. HAYES In Cloud computing the difference between a dark cloud and a cloud with a silver lining, is the part...
RAJAT MOHAN I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a litt...
J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN Phoebe Wolkind Ephron cracked wise like Dorothy Parker and looked like Katharine Hepburn.
HALLIE EPHRON She looks like she combs her hair with an egg beater.
HEDDA HOPPER A lot of teenagers write to me and say "I want to write a book. I want to get published." And those ...
MAUREEN JOHNSON When told that a certain woman would not hurt a fly Dorothy Parker retorted, "Not if it was buttoned...
DOROTHY PARKER Death is not scary enough and not so sweet life of the human foot leaves gentility.
IMAM ALI (AS) Would you want you as a friend?
PETER STROPLE It should not be surprised by seeing in our weird world that the people for enjoying own bread can a...
ANUJ SOMANY Everyone out there is using you for their entertainment and what you mostly need is to be entertainm...
SUPERNA BATHEJA A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
MORTIMER COLLINS A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
MORTIMER COLLINS And if you can’t shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade ...
CONSTANTINOS P. CAVAFIS A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.
E. W. HOWE A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast
EDGAR WATSON HOWE Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common.
DOROTHY PARKER Kristin Brown looks as though she could have been mailed first-class to New York for about a dollar ...
WILLIAM E. GEIST As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed.
BASHAR AL-ASSAD As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.
MARK MOTHERSBAUGH As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.
ALBERT J. NOCK Nothing trumps honesty, as far as I'm concerned.
DAVID KOECHNER I think Jennifer Lopez is a phenom. And as far as I'm concerned, she's really a very smart b...
RITA MORENO You have some queer friends, Dorothy,' she said.
The queerness doesn't matter, so long as...
L. FRANK BAUM Dorothy Hamill was my big idol as a kid. She'd won the Olympics in 1976. She was America's s...
KRISTI YAMAGUCHI Charlie Parker was a genius, as was Lester Young.
SEBASTIAN COE Noise proves nothing, Often a hen who has laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
MARK TWAIN Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.
MARK TWAIN As far as I'm concerned, there is no subject that's off the table.
GARRY TRUDEAU As far as festivals, nothing tops Cannes.
SASHA LANE A BMW can't take you as far as a diploma.
JOYCE MEYER Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.
CHRISTA MCAULIFFE Television's going, as far as I'm concerned, downhill, and I'm an anachronism.
DICK VAN DYKE Wearing corsets all the time was completely incapacitating, as far as digestion goes.
HELENA BONHAM CARTER As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.
JEF RASKIN As far as music, Louis Armstrong is one of my heroes.
JON BATISTE As far as natural ability, I was always athletic.
TROY BROWN That my philosophy of life is, as far as possible, one of enjoyment. I'm not nihilistic.
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH Fame was not at all what it was cracked up to be, as far as I was concerned.
DAVE MADDEN Stress and looks are directly connected as far as I am concerned. If you are happy, you look good.
MAHESH BABU We must strive to let go our life as we planned,so as to have life we are destined for & that comes ...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA The surrounding nature is the best erudite master to teach us the basics of living.
ANUJ SOMANY Success is not a journey, it's a destination called satisfaction.
ANUJ SOMANY She looks healthy. Her pregnancy, as far as I can tell, is going fine.
LAURA PERKOVIC As far as working out, I know exactly what I'm doing.
EVANDER HOLYFIELD As far as groupies, I never saw any of them.
DAVY JONES As far as my relationship with President Putin is concerned, it's fine.
GERHARD SCHRODER This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
SID ZIFF She looks as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth
JONATHAN SWIFT She looks just as music sounds, I think,' answered Anne.
L.M. MONTGOMERY She can curse right and she looks as though she's eaten French food before.
JULIE POWELL History is replete with blunders written by sycophants.
TOMICHAN MATHEIKAL A woman doesn't care if she hasn't a stomach, provided she looks as if she hasn't.
FLANN O'BRIEN As far as sustaining our popularity, I believe we can.
VINCE MCMAHON In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.
KANYE WEST As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans.
NATALIE GULBIS We've actually eliminated Type II polio in the world, at least as far as we can tell.
SETH BERKLEY Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.
JOSEPH STALIN As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther.
J. P. MORGAN Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.
THOMAS CARLYLE What we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. There are people we trust b...
STEPHEN R. COVEY As far as single payer, it works in Canada. It works incredibly well in Scotland.
DONALD TRUMP You know, if it weren't for these fans, I wouldn't have gotten as far as I did.
ADAM LAMBERT As far as my notoriety or whatever, I haven't been the star of a hit film.
ALESSANDRO NIVOLA I wouldn't trust any man as far as you can throw a piano.
ETHEL MERMAN Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY So, you're the man who can't spell 'fuck.'"
Dorothy Parker to Norman Mailer after publishers h...
DOROTHY PARKER Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN That's SHIT!
How do you remove it?
You just put it inside the trash, easy as that.
DEYTH BANGER Normal? What's that?"
"How you really look."
"Can you take off all your clothe...
KIERSTEN WHITE Yeah, I got her,” Will confirms.
“Who you got?” I ask.
“You, drunk girl. Come on.�...
KRISTEN PROBY Will father be there?" she asked.
John turned to her in astonishment.
Your fat...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD To make money I picked up work as a busboy, valet parker, skateboard shop employee.
DAVID SPADE She looks as strong as I've ever seen her. She's coming off a great track season and she has continu...
MATT LOISEAU He's a sturdy fellow, bald as a hen's egg, and like all engineers, practical as a pensioner.
STEVEN PRESSFIELD Sunlight dusts them; Water is damp; Crosses pain them; And beheadings cause cramps—
THOMM QUACKENBUSH Its a chicken-and-egg argument as to which comes first.
JOE GILL Man is on earth as in an egg
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS There isn't a class structure in Nigeria; there's a tribal structure and prestige as far as ...
SADE ADU As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
KAJOL And as far as guitars go, I loved Jimmy Bryant and Speedy West's stuff.
WILLIE NELSON As far as I'm concerned, the best acting class is life.
JAKE MCLAUGHLIN Men, we don't get much, as far as holidays go - Father's Day.
DMX As far as cities go, Havana is a festering treasure chest, a primary color.
BRIN-JONATHAN BUTLER I don't know what it is about 'Godzilla,' but as far as I'm concerned, the more vers...
RHYS DARBY As far as missile defense is concerned, a very thorough consultation process is underway.
GERHARD SCHRODER I am not a lobbyist. I am not a political activist. I am not a leader, as far as I'm concerned.
JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS As far as military necessity will permit, religiously respect the constitutional rights of all.
GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN On 'Buffy' I wasn't all that high on the totem pole as far as responsibility and screen ...
CHARISMA CARPENTER As far as the world was concerned, from 1979 to 1996, I didn't publish any original material; it...
ALAN GARNER Kolkata is the relatively unexplored part of India as far as Hindi films are concerned.
SANJAY DUTT As far as rap, I was more of a Mobb Deep guy rather than a Tribe guy.
ACTION BRONSON I'm not funny. Never have been and, as far as I can tell, I never will be.
DAVID DOBKIN I don't care what the religion is called; as far as I'm concerned, one God, the God I adhere...
CHARLEY PRIDE Say she rail; why, I'll tell her plain
She sings as sweetly as a nightingale.
Say that she...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorot...
KAZUO ISHIGURO
More Dorothy Parker
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 I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I'm under the table,
After four...
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 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.
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