1893-1967, American Humorous Writer
All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me.
Dorothy Parker – [Autobiography]
Art is a form of catharsis.
Dorothy Parker – [Arts and Artists]
Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
Dorothy Parker – [Dress]
Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
Dorothy Parker – [Parties]
Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.
Dorothy Parker – [Parties]
Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
Dorothy Parker – [Pregnancy]
Gratitude — the meanest and most sniveling attribute in the world.
Dorothy Parker – [Gratitude]
He [Robert Benchley] and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.
Dorothy Parker – [Office]
Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.
Dorothy Parker – [Hollywood]
I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back on. I can't imagine how I did it. When I got away from it I couldn't even refer to the place by name. ''Out there,'' I called it.
Dorothy Parker – [Hollywood]
I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
Dorothy Parker – [Gossip]
I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
Dorothy Parker – [Men]
I shall stay the way I am because I do not give a damn.
Dorothy Parker – [Apathy]
If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the fact that it's the best you can do that kills you.
Dorothy Parker – [Writers and Writing]
It's not the tragedies that kill us, it's the messes.
Dorothy Parker – [Tragedies]
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.
Dorothy Parker – [Love]
Razors pain you; rivers are damp; acids stain you; and drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful; you might as well live.
Dorothy Parker – [Suicide]
Scratch a lover, and find a foe.
Dorothy Parker – [Lovers]
She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.
Dorothy Parker – [Acting and Actors]
Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.
Dorothy Parker – [Sorrow]