Dorothy Parker Quotes - Page 5

Once I was coming down a street in Beverly Hills and I saw a Cadillac about a block long, and out of the side window was a wonderfully slinky mink, and an arm, and at the end of the arm a hand in a white suede glove wrinkled around the wrist, and in the hand was a bagel with a bite out of it.

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.

They tire of quiet, that have known the storm

The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters. ... Obscenity is too valuable a commodity to chuck around all over the place; it should be taken out of the safe on special occasions only.

I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.

Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.

If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised.

My own dear love, he is strong and bold And he cares not what comes after. His words ring sweet as a chime of gold, And his eyes are lit with laughter. He is jubilant as a flag unfurled - Oh, a girl, she'd not forget him. My own dear love, he is all my world - And I wish I'd never met him.

A girl's best friend is her mutter.

Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.

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

I can’t write five words but that I change seven.

I regret to say that during the first act of this, I fell so soundly asleep that the gentleman who brought me piled up a barricade of overcoat, hat, stick, and gloves between us to establish a separation in the eyes of the world, and went into an impersonation of A Young Man Who Has Come to the Theater Unaccompanied.

I might repeat to myself . . . a list of quotations from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things.

A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.

The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.

Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.

And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.

There's little in taking or giving, There's little in water or wine: This living, this living, this living, Was never a project of mine. Oh, hard is the struggle, and sparse is The gain of the one at the top, For art is a form of catharsis, And love is a permanent flop, And work is the province of cattle, And rest's for a clam in a shell, So I'm thinking of throwing the battle - Would you kindly direct me to hell?

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

Newton's Fourth Law: Every action has an equal and opposite satisfaction.

All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.

Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.

There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.

People are more fun than anyone.