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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Be you wise and never sad, You will get your lovely lad. Never serious be, nor true, And your wish will come to you-- And if that makes you happy, kid, You'll be the first it ever did.

Dorothy Parker

Why is it no one sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect rose.

Dorothy Parker

The two most beautiful words in the English language are 'cheque enclosed.

Dorothy Parker

And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word.

Dorothy Parker

Eternity is a ham and two people” (also given as “Eternity is two people and a ham") is an old quip from the days when a ham was huge—far more than two people could finish. Irma Rombauer mentions this line in her famous cookbook, The Joy of Coo...

Dorothy Parker

This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it.

Dorothy Parker

A hangover is the wrath of grapes.

Dorothy Parker

I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a great work. But this is no great work, you see.

Dorothy Parker

Hold your pen and spare your voice.

Dorothy Parker

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.

Dorothy Parker

The sun's gone dim, and the moon's gone black. For I loved him, and he didn't love back.

Dorothy Parker

I shudder at the thought of men.... I'm due to fall in love again

Dorothy Parker

He'll be cross if he sees I have been crying. They don't like you to cry. He doesn't cry. I wish to God I could make him cry. I wish I could make him cry and tread the floor and feel his heart heavy and big and festering in him. I wish I could hurt h...

Dorothy Parker

Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night.

Dorothy Parker

It costs me never a stab nor squirm / To tread by chance upon a worm. / Aha, my little dear, / I say, Your clan will pay me back one day.

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

"If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all assume that Oscar said it. [ Magazine, June 2, 1927]

Dorothy Parker

I hate writing, I love having written.

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