Dorothy Parker quotes - page 4

Dorothy Parker was an American poet, writer, and critic, celebrated for her sharp wit and satirical style. Her work became influential in New York literary circles, particularly as a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table. She is remembered for her biting humor, memorable quotes, and contributions to American literature. Here are 176 of her quotes:

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

I'd like to have money. And I'd like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that's too adorable, I'd rather have money.

Dorothy Parker

It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.

Dorothy Parker

The only "ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.

Dorothy Parker

Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.

Dorothy Parker

Now, look, baby, 'Union' is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.

Dorothy Parker

I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.

Dorothy Parker

His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.

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

Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.

Dorothy Parker

I can't write five words but that I change seven.

Dorothy Parker

Friends come and go but I wouldn't have thought you'd be one of them.

Dorothy Parker

Mrs. Ewing was a short woman who accepted the obligation borne by so many short women to make up in vivacity what they lack in number of inches from the ground.

Dorothy Parker

Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.

Dorothy Parker

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

Dorothy Parker

Hold your pen and spare your voice.

Dorothy Parker

The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe!

Dorothy Parker

Her mind lives tidily, apart from cold and noise and pain. And bolts the door against her heart, out wailing in the rain.

Dorothy Parker

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

Dorothy Parker

The plot is so tired that even this reviewer, who in infancy was let drop by a nurse with the result that she has ever since been mystified by amateur coin tricks, was able to guess the identity of the murderer from the middle of the book.

Dorothy Parker

Travel, trouble, music, art, a kiss, a frock, a rhyme -- I never said they feed my heart, but still they pass my time.

Dorothy Parker

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

Dorothy Parker