A collection of quotes and sayings by Dorothy Parker on beauty, classic-insult, humor, ugly, money, God, suicide, passion, lying, cynicism and dark-humor.
121 Quotes By Dorothy Parker For Cultivating Take No Prisoners Attitude
Dorothy Parker was a famed American critic, short story writer, poet and satirist. She is till date revered for her wisecracks and wit. Parker had a troubled childhood, but she broke the shackles of her past and gained recognition not just for her literary publications in ‘The New Yorker’ but also as the charter member of the ‘Algonquin Round Table’. When the circle parted ways, she moved to Hollywood to pursue a career in screenwriting. She also bagged in two ‘Academy Award’ nominations for her prolific writing. Her involvement in left-wing politics however, led her to Hollywood blacklist. Nevertheless, her literary works, thoughts, opinions and writings have endured up to this date. As luck would have it many of her thoughts, sayings, words and quotes fit the bill in today’s world. Read through the popular quotes and thoughts by Dorothy Parker to have a glimpse at her funny side.
Well, there are always those who cannot distinguish between glitter and glamour . . . the glamour of Isadora Duncan came from her great, torn, bewildered, foolhardy soul.
Dorothy Parker
What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
Dorothy Parker
[On hearing that Clare Boothe Luce was invariably kind to her inferiors:] And where does she find them?
Dorothy Parker
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
Dorothy Parker
Writing well is the best revenge.
Dorothy Parker
Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
Dorothy Parker
Now, look, baby, 'Union' is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
Dorothy Parker
[On Katharine Hepburn's stage performance:] She ran the whole gamut of emotions, from A to B.
Dorothy Parker
This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
Dorothy Parker
Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
Dorothy Parker
They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
Dorothy Parker
Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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.
His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
Dorothy Parker
Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
Dorothy Parker
The writer's way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?
Dorothy Parker
And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
It may be that this autobiography [Aimee Semple McPherson's] is set down in sincerity, frankness, and simple effort. It may be, too, that the Statue of Liberty is situated in Lake Ontario.
Dorothy Parker
Where's the man that could ease a heart like a satin gown?
A list of authors who have made themselves most beloved and therefore, most comfortable financially, shows that it is our national joy to mistake for the first-rate, the fecund rate.
Dorothy Parker
Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
Dorothy Parker
Why, after all, should readers never be harrowed? Surely there is enough happiness in life without having to go to books for it.
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.
The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
Dorothy Parker
[Hospitalized and pressing the nurse's button before dictating letters to her secretary:] This should assure us of at least forty-five minutes of undisturbed privacy.
Dorothy Parker
Newton's Fourth Law: Every action has an equal and opposite satisfaction.
On lady novelists: As artists they're rot, but as providers they're oil wells; they gush. Norris said she never wrote a story unless it was fun to do. I understand Ferber whistles at her typewriter.
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.
I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.
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.
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