Dorothy Parker Quotes

They sicken of the calm who know the storm.

~ Dorothy Parker

God, the bitter misery that reading works into this world! Everybody knows that - everbody who IS everybody. All the best minds have been off reading for years. Look at the swing La Rouchefoucauld took at it. He said that if nobody had ever learned to read, very few people would be in love. Good for you, La Rouchefoucauld; nice going, boy. I wish I’d never learned to read.

~ Dorothy Parker

Why, that dog is practically a Phi Beta Kappa. She can sit up and beg, and she can give her paw -- I don't say she will but she can.

~ Dorothy Parker

Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studdedwheelchair.

~ Dorothy Parker

She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go.

~ Dorothy Parker

Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life.

~ Dorothy Parker

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

~ Dorothy Parker

Some men break your heart in two,Some men fawn and flatter,Some men never look at you;And that cleans up the matter.

~ Dorothy Parker

If wild my breast and sore my pride,I bask in dreams of suicide,If cool my heart and high my headI think 'How lucky are the dead.

~ Dorothy Parker

I never see that prettiest thing-A cherry bough gone white with Spring-But what I think, How gay 'twould beTo hang me from a flowering tree.

~ Dorothy Parker

This level reach of blue is not my sea; Here are sweet waters, pretty in the sun,Whose quiet ripples meet obediently A marked and measured line, one after one. This is no sea of mine. that humbly laves Untroubled sands, spread glittering and warm. I have a need of wilder, crueler waves; They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm. So let a love beat over me again, Loosing its million desperate breakers wide; Sudden and terrible to rise and wane; Roaring the heavens apart; a reckless tide That casts upon the heart, as it recedes, Splinters and spars and dripping, salty weeds.

~ Dorothy Parker

A Very Short Song Once, when I was young and true, Someone left me sad- Broke my brittle heart in two; And that is very bad. Love is for unlucky folk, Love is but a curse. Once there was a heart I broke; And that, I think, is worse.

~ 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

Then she told herself to stop her nonsense. If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them, more easily each time, so easily, soon, that you did not even realize you had gone out searching.

~ Dorothy Parker

tomorrow's gone-we'll have tonight!

~ Dorothy Parker

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

~ Dorothy Parker

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

~ 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

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.

~ Dorothy Parker

If I didn't care for fun and such,I'd probably amount to much.But I shall stay the way I am,Because I do not give a damn.

~ Dorothy Parker

One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

~ Dorothy Parker

Poisons pain you Rivers are damp Acid stains you And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful Nooses give Gas smells awful You might as well live.

~ Dorothy Parker

He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.

~ Dorothy Parker

Where's the man could ease the heart Like a satin gown?

~ Dorothy Parker

Brevity is the soul of lingerie.

~ Dorothy Parker

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

~ Dorothy Parker

I shall stay the way I am Because I do not give a damn.

~ 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

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

~ Dorothy Parker