Quotes by Dorothy Parker

About Dorothy Parker:

Dorothy Parker was an American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist, best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.

Dorothy Parker

They sicken of the calm who know the storm.

Dorothy Parker

All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted.

Dorothy Parker

You think You're frightening me with Your hell, don't You? You think Your hell is worse than mine.

Dorothy Parker

Men They hail you as their morning star Because you are the way you are. If you return the sentiment, They'll try to make you different; And once they have you, safe and sound, They want to change you all around. Your moods and ways they put a curse ...

Dorothy Parker

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

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'll call him up. You don't have to give me strength, God; I have it myself. If he wanted me, he could get me. He knows where I am. He knows I'm waitin...

Dorothy Parker

My love runs by like a day in June, And he makes no friends of sorrows. He'll tread his galloping rigadoon In the pathway of the morrows. He'll live his days where the sunbeams start, Nor could storm or wind uproot him. My own dear love, he is all my...

Dorothy Parker

Little Words When you are gone, there is nor bloom nor leaf, Nor singing sea at night, nor silver birds; And I can only stare, and shape my grief In little words. I cannot conjure loveliness, to drown The bitter woe that racks my cords apart. The wea...

Dorothy Parker

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.

Dorothy Parker

Brevity is the soul of lingerie.

Dorothy Parker

That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.

Dorothy Parker

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

Dorothy Parker

It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard.

Dorothy Parker

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

Dorothy Parker

If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.

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

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.

Dorothy Parker

I find her anecdotes more efficacious than sheep-counting, rain on a tin roof, or alanol tablets.... you will find me and Morpheus, off in a corner, necking.

Dorothy Parker

London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it.

Dorothy Parker

By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this -- One of you is lying.

Dorothy Parker

Author Bio

  • NameDorothy Parker
  • DescriptionAmerican poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
  • AliasesDorothy Rothschild; Dot; Dottie
  • BornAugust 22, 1893
  • DiedJune 7, 1967
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionColumnist; Poet; Screenwriter; Writer