Everyone here is related to me. I always reach out to people. My brother called and I told him, 'Come here. You don't have to worry about anything.'


Dorothy Dunbar

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Four be the th...
DOROTHY PARKER
Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or a...
DOROTHY DAY
I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I'm under the table,
After four...
DOROTHY PARKER
Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.
DOROTHY PARKER
Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (B...
DOROTHY PARKER
For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the b...
DOROTHY DIX
It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard.
DOROTHY PARKER
He Robert Benchley and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.
DOROTHY PARKER
Never try to look into both eyes at the same time. Switch your gaze from one eye to the other. That ...
DOROTHY SARNOFF
Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
DOROTHY BERNARD
And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned; The calmer, I, to see it tru...
DOROTHY PARKER
Inventive man has invented nothing -- nothing from scratch. If he has produced a machine that in mot...
DOROTHY THOMPSON
Every year, back come Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground al...
DOROTHY PARKER
Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.
DOROTHY PARKER
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
DOROTHY BROUDE
Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.
DOROTHY NEVILL
Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment ...
DOROTHY DIX
In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something...
DOROTHY DIX
He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.
DOROTHY PARKER
Her mind lives tidily, apart From cold and noise and pain, And bolts the door against her heart, Out...
DOROTHY PARKER
His voice was intimate as the rustle of sheets.
DOROTHY PARKER
Sorrow is tranquillity remembered in emotion.
DOROTHY PARKER
I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicul...
DOROTHY PARKER
Men don't like nobility in woman. Not any men. I suppose it is because the men like to have the cop...
DOROTHY PARKER
Well, there are always those who cannot distinguish between glitter and glamour . . . the glamour of...
DOROTHY PARKER
I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
DOROTHY PARKER
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
DOROTHY PARKER
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
DOROTHY PARKER
When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken.
DOROTHY PARKER
Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to u...
DOROTHY PARKER
Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world.
DOROTHY PARKER
Scratch a lover, and find a foe.
DOROTHY PARKER
It's not the tragedies that kill us, it's the messes.
DOROTHY PARKER
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never ...
DOROTHY PARKER
Misfortune tests friends, and detects enemies
DOROTHY PARKER
It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that mak...
DOROTHY DIX
Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded
wheelchair.
DOROTHY PARKER
I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best ...
DOROTHY DAY
Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
DOROTHY PARKER
Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses.
DOROTHY PARKER
The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
DOROTHY DAY
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone
DOROTHY PARKER
Razors pain you; rivers are damp; acids stain you; and drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful; nooses...
DOROTHY PARKER
I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things....
DOROTHY PARKER
Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.
DOROTHY THOMPSON
Eating is really one of your indoor sports. You play three times a day, and it's well worth while to...
DOROTHY DRAPER
Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.
DOROTHY SARNOFF
Change happens very slow and very sudden.
DOROTHY BRYANT
The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness.
DOROTHY THOMPSON
Why can't I be the adorable one?
DOROTHY KILGALLEN