Dorothy Parker Quotes - Famous Quotes by Dorothy Parker
Born: 1893-08-22
Died: 1967-06-07
Dorothy Parker Biography
"Coolidge is dead"
"How could they tell?
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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Art is a form of catharsis.
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Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
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Dear Mary: We all knew you had it in you. (Telegram to friend who had given birth)
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Every year, back come Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.
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His voice was a intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true.
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I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.
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I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things.
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I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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I went to a convent in New York and was fired finally for my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was spontaneous combustion.
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I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do any thing. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.
- Dorothy Parker
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If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised.
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If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
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Men seldom make passes
At girls who wear glasses.
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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 Roumania.
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She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B. (speaking of Katharine Hepburn)
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Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.
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That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
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The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature.
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The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.
- Dorothy Parker
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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The only "ism" Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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The two most beautiful words in the English language are ``check enclosed.'
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There's a helluva distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
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They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.
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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
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Trapped, like a trap in a trap.
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