Dorothy Parker Quotes - Page 4

Brevity is the soul of lingerie.

I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.

They sicken of the calm who know the storm.

Now, look, baby, 'Union' is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.

Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.

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

If I had a shiny gun I could have a world of fun Speeding bullets through the brains Of the folks that cause me pains :)

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.

It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes.

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

What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.

Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.

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

all men are the same age.

The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.

[On being told party guests were ducking for apples:] There, but for a typographical error, is the story of my life.

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

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.

Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

(Scottish Terriers) have all the compactness of a small dog and all the valor of a big one. And they are so exceedingly sturdy that it is proverbial that the only thing fatal to them is being run over by an automobile - in which case the car itself knows it has been in a fight.

Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.

I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.

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.

His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.

There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.