'Union' is spelled with five letters. It is not a four-letter word.
A combination of Little Nell and Lady Macbeth. (on Dorothy Parker).
A girl's best friend is her mutter.
Age before beauty... and pearls before swine.
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.
Art is a form of catharsis.
As only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night.
Authors and actors and artists and such
Never know nothing, and never know much.
Never know nothing, and never know much.
Better be left by twenty dears
Than lie in a love-less bed;
Better a loaf that's wet with tears,
Than cold, unsalted bread.
Than lie in a love-less bed;
Better a loaf that's wet with tears,
Than cold, unsalted bread.
Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
Drink and dance and laugh and lie,
Love, the reeling midnight through,
For tomorrow we shall die!
(But, alas, we never do.)
Love, the reeling midnight through,
For tomorrow we shall die!
(But, alas, we never do.)
Ducking for apples- change one letter and it's the story of my life.
Every love is the love before
In a duller dress.
In a duller dress.
Every year back comes Spring, with nasty little birds, yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.
Everything I've ever said will be credited to Dorothy Parker.
Excuse my dust. (Proposed epitaph for herself).
Four be the things I am wiser to know:
Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
Four be the things I'd have been better without:
love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.
love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.
Her golden rule is plain enough-
Just get them young and treat them rough.
Just get them young and treat them rough.
Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common.
I hate almost all rich people, but I think I'd be darling at it.
I hate women. They get on my nerves.
I hate writing, I love having written.
I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
I should have stayed at home for dinner. I could have had something on a tray. The head of John the Baptist, or something.
I'd like to have money. And I'd like to be a good writer. But if that's too adorable, I'd rather have money.
I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me. 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 anything. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.
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.
I'd probably amount to much.
But I shall stay the way I am,
Because I do not give a damn.
If I don't drive around the park,
I'm pretty sure to make my mark.
If I'm in bed each night by ten,
I may get back my looks again.
If I abstain from fun and such,
I'll probably amount to much;
But I shall stay the way I am,
Because I do not give a damn.
I'm pretty sure to make my mark.
If I'm in bed each night by ten,
I may get back my looks again.
If I abstain from fun and such,
I'll probably amount to much;
But I shall stay the way I am,
Because I do not give a damn.
If I had any decency, I'd be dead. Most of my friends are.
(at age 70).
(at age 70).
If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they're happy.
If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard.
(Upon entering the hospital for an abortion.)
(Upon entering the hospital for an abortion.)
It's a small apartment, I've barely enough room to lay a hat and a few friends.
It's not the tragedies that kill us, it's the messes.
Men seldom make passes
At girls who wear glasses.
At girls who wear glasses.
Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!
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.
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Romania.
Oh, seek my love, your newer way;
I'll not be left in sorrow.
So long as I have yesterday,
Go take your damned tomorrow!
I'll not be left in sorrow.
So long as I have yesterday,
Go take your damned tomorrow!
One more drink and I'd have been under the host.
People Who Do Things exceed my endurance;
God, for a man that solicits insurance!
God, for a man that solicits insurance!
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.
Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you;
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful;
Nooses give;
Gas smells awful;
You might as well live.
Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart.
Scratch a lover, and find a foe.
She looks like something that would eat its young.
She wore a low but futile decolletage.
Some men tear your heart in two,
Some men flirt and flatter,
Some men never look at you,
And that clears up the matter.
Some men flirt and flatter,
Some men never look at you,
And that clears up the matter.
Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say No in any of them.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of their tires.
The only 'ism' Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
The place was filled with people who looked as if they had been scraped out of drains.
The two most beautiful words in the English language are 'check enclosed.'
Their pooled emotions wouldn't fill a teaspoon.
There are those who, in their pride and their innocence, dedicate their careers to writing humorous pieces. Poor dears, the world is stacked against them from the start, for everybody in it has the right to look at their work and say, 'I don't think that's funny.'
There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
They sicken of the calm, who know the storm.
This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it.
Three highballs, and I think I'm St. Francis of Assisi.
Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.
What fresh hell can this be?
Why is it no one ever sent me yet
One perfect limousine, do you suppose?
Ah no, it's always just my luck to get
One perfect rose.
One perfect limousine, do you suppose?
Ah no, it's always just my luck to get
One perfect rose.
You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.
You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.
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