Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.
Dorothy Parker
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Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow.
DOROTHY PARKER Money is only congealed snow.
DOROTHY PARKER "LSD melts your mind, not in your hand".
UNKNOWN LSD melts your mind, not in your hand.
ANONYMOUS But pleasures are like poppies spread;
You seize the flower, its bloom is shed.
Or like the sn...
ROBERT BURNS Phoebe Wolkind Ephron cracked wise like Dorothy Parker and looked like Katharine Hepburn.
HALLIE EPHRON An audience is going to be able to find a little bit of Dorothy in themselves and relate to this wom...
MOIRA KELLY You can give people money in hand, but if there is nowhere to spend that money, it's not going to he...
DEBRA MAYER If you want to see what God thinks of money, just look at all the people He gave it to.
DOROTHY PARKER We're hoping the snow melts off the track so they can start running out there.
DOUG PUMMELL Give, and you may keep your friend it you lose your money; lend, and the chances are that you lose y...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON I think it's dangerous any time you spend money before it's in your hand. You never know what's goin...
CINDY HOCKENBERRY The last thing I want to turn into is a fat Hollywood jerk. I was brought up without much money and ...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO Apart from earning an awful lot of money, why would you go to Hollywood?
MATTHEW MACFADYEN As far as trucking in snow, we don't have the money.
TIM ALLEN The bottom line of Hollywood is money.
VICTORIA JACKSON Working in Hollywood, it's clear the more money you have, the more technology you can get. So yo...
ZIYI ZHANG To make money I picked up work as a busboy, valet parker, skateboard shop employee.
DAVID SPADE Hotels are a difficult way to make money, as there are a lot of fixed costs. Ladbrokes, on the other...
ANDY LYNCH There are no jobs in Hollywood, you must make your own.
ELIZABETH MCDONALD You shouldn't retire until your money starts making more money than you made in your best year.
ZIAD K. ABDELNOUR If you think Hollywood is depressing and corrupt, politics is really depressing and corrupt -- and f...
BEN AFFLECK Where your money goes, there your heart follows.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Of course you are American,' he said, and waived his hand, like waving away the sentiment. 'What oth...
TONY D'SOUZA If your ratings are high and there's money being made, you're allowed to be a perfectionist ...
DAN HARMON Draco's like... snow," said Hermione quietly, her gaze absent and distracted. "It's cold and cruel t...
BEX-CHAN There was not much love lost between electronics and the movie company because 10 years ago, the mov...
HOWARD STRINGER Trauma for vehicular accidents drops off until the snow hits the deck. Then the snow melts away and ...
DR. G. PATRICK KEALEY We've put the snow guns away just because of the astronomical cost. That's a lot of money when you'r...
RYAN GUERRETTE There are companies with management and companies with money. You can always find money. Management ...
HUSNU OZYEGIN When told that a certain woman would not hurt a fly Dorothy Parker retorted, "Not if it was buttoned...
DOROTHY PARKER Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
MICHAEL CAINE Money only stinks and corrodes if stays in single hand.
ANUJ SOMANY When the IMF lends you money it has all these strings attached. But if you don't owe the IMF money, ...
FELIPE NOGUERA If you can't save your money, let the money save you.
EPHDAN I like money. You like money. We need the money. But, money is not going to bring humanity and spiri...
BIKRAM CHOUDHURY You will not find your passion in things and you will not find your passion in money. The more thing...
RANDY PAUSCH Your TRUE WEALTH is what you are worth if you lost ALL your MONEY and POSSESSIONS.
LORRIN L. LEE Money's important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don't have money, money becomes ...
PAUL AUSTER Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse.
WILLIAM BLAKE The opposite of war isnt peace its creation
JONATHAN LARSON Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Explain that if you leave all your money in your house, there are risks: it could get stolen, lost i...
DEBBIE PIERCE If you just kind of live a regular life and make good 'Hollywood' money, you have a certain ...
DANA CARVEY Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buyi...
OGDEN NASH I'm younger than Rod Stewart and Bruce Springsteen, but I'm still getting up there in age.
EDDIE MONEY I've always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix.
EDDIE MONEY I love L.A. for the beach and stuff, that's the reason I live here.
EDDIE MONEY I still do a bit of this and a bit of that. Some brews and there's nothing wrong with a bud or t...
EDDIE MONEY It's very important to give back to the community and do anything you can.
EDDIE MONEY I'm not trying to stay in the same place and I'm not trying to compete with what's curre...
EDDIE MONEY To me, the glass is always half full, never half empty.
EDDIE MONEY You look at Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Bob Seger. All they ever wanted to do was go out there and entert...
EDDIE MONEY Well it's a drastic procedure by your standards and mine, but for the people who are living in d...
JOHN MONEY It makes it very exciting don't you think to live in an age of, of discovery of human personalit...
JOHN MONEY The markets have been very volatile and a large segment of the market is historically a very volatil...
MONEY MAGAZINE It used to be cool, but if you bad mouth MTV, you sound like a dinosaur, ... The rap is driving me c...
EDDIE MONEY What do you got to do to get in there. I want to be in the Hall of Fame because I want my kids to th...
EDDIE MONEY Touring is the only thing I know. I'm not a rocket scientist, what else am I going to do? Chicks, bo...
EDDIE MONEY I'm not trying to stay in the same place and I'm not trying to compete with what's currently in fash...
EDDIE MONEY I still do a bit of this and a bit of that. Some brews and there's nothing wrong with a bud or two! ...
EDDIE MONEY We intend to file our appeal brief with the Court of First Instance [in Luxembourg] next week,
MONEY MAGAZINE The remedy is to have the five major domestic U.S. manufacturers disgorge the illegal profits that t...
MONEY MAGAZINE Goodbye, and good luck with your stupid and insulting ad campaign,
MONEY MAGAZINE I think their latest issue pushed the envelope too far,
MONEY MAGAZINE I've always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix.
EDDIE MONEY I love L.A. for the beach and stuff, that's the reason I live here.
EDDIE MONEY Thank you for your wonderful Pueblo hospitality, ... I don't care. I love the '80s!
EDDIE MONEY I put 100 percent into my shows. The fans determine the set list. I'll play two completely different...
EDDIE MONEY You know, I'm just a beach bum. I can go surfing all the time down on Huntington Beach and Malibu be...
EDDIE MONEY He was doing a great job. We were just hitting the ball into the ground. I wouldn't say we were beat...
DON MONEY Like most schools in the area, we talk about alcohol. I think it (ending underage drinking) starts w...
DON MONEY We know they're not professional guys and we tell our guys to try to remember that. We just have to ...
DON MONEY That's why we picked him up this year. We needed some pop.
DON MONEY We told him he needed to pick up his intensity a little bit. He came out and did that. He's had two ...
DON MONEY He went right after the hitters.
DON MONEY Theoretically there is always room for a settlement,
MONEY MAGAZINE As far as our club is concerned, that's where the majority of the proceeds from this project go.
LYNN MONEY They're $15 a dozen, and you get them delivered now that's a deal. It's a good way to express app...
LYNN MONEY We are not in discussions with [Palm] about any kind of merger,
MONEY MAGAZINE It's a big point for us after last week's insipid effort.
RICHARD MONEY Isn't it fantastic that there are still a few things left that you can't buy with your money?
INGAR DRAGSET If your bank took bailout money, take your money out of that bank and put it in a credit union. Cred...
MICHAEL MOORE Unconditional love of self isnt forced...its felt and flows naturally
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN Your money myth affects your gain and luck. In economics, illusion of money affects wealth.
TOBA BETA You spend your money; may be it wasn't yours. Your money spends you; may be it wasn't supposed to yo...
EPHDAN Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common.
DOROTHY PARKER You are master of what you say until you utter it, once you deliver it, you are its captive. Preserv...
HAZRAT ALI IBN ABU-TALIB A.S It's nice to have money, but the first thing I did with money was buy my father a snow-blower, b...
RICHARD GERE Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of...
MICHAEL LEBOEUF If you owe money, and you know you owe money, you have to pay 90 percent of your tax.
JO ELLEN HUGHES Acting is the easiest money you'll ever make in your life, and directing is probably the hardest...
CHARLES S. DUTTON You do make money. Just because its non-profit doesn't mean your going to work for free.
JAN REID Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny -
Did you ever try b...
OGDEN NASH Certainly there are things in life that money can’t buy, but it’s very funny –
Did you e...
OGDEN NASH Hedge funds are not especially liquid. Many are 'gated' - meaning there are only small windo...
BARRY RITHOLTZ In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money.
GAEL GARCIA BERNAL It's not really about money. It's about being centered. Money is kind of a symbol of how you are in ...
JOAN CUSACK I can always go back to construction. That's great money, but the problem is you can cut off you...
BENJAMIN WALKER You can spend your money on art works and sit down and look at them. Or you can use your money to he...
XAVIER NIEL
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And who's the one that cares
A trifling lot and...
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Broke my brittle heart in two;
And ...
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DOROTHY PARKER Oh, it is sure as it is sad
That any lad is every lad,
And what's a girl, to dare implore DOROTHY PARKER I never see the prettiest thing -
A cherry bough gone white with Spring -
But what I think, Ho...
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DOROTHY PARKER The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out o...
DOROTHY PARKER If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
DOROTHY PARKER Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
DOROTHY PARKER By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing.
And he vows his passion is,
...
DOROTHY PARKER Oh seek, my love, your newer way;
I'll not be left in sorrow.
So long as I have yesterday DOROTHY PARKER If I didn't care for fun and such,
I'd probably amount to much.
But I shall stay the way I...
DOROTHY PARKER She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.
DOROTHY PARKER If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised.
DOROTHY PARKER That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.
DOROTHY PARKER Inventory:
"Four be the things I am wiser to know:
Idleness, sorrow, a friend...
DOROTHY PARKER If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do the...
DOROTHY PARKER There's little in taking or giving
There's little in water or wine
This living, this livin...
DOROTHY PARKER Where's the man that could ease a heart like a satin gown?
DOROTHY PARKER In youth, it was a way I had,
To do my best to please.
And change, with every passing lad<...
DOROTHY PARKER I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
DOROTHY PARKER Some men break your heart in two,
Some men fawn and flatter,
Some men never look at you; DOROTHY PARKER All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were a...
DOROTHY PARKER Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
DOROTHY PARKER There's a helluva distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply...
DOROTHY PARKER Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a poi...
DOROTHY PARKER I never thought that heav'n would lose its blue
And sullen storm-clouds mask the gentle sky; DOROTHY PARKER All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't si...
DOROTHY PARKER I shall stay the way I am because I do not give a damn.
DOROTHY PARKER They sicken at the calm that know the storm.
DOROTHY PARKER They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.
DOROTHY PARKER Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
DOROTHY PARKER He'd have given me rolling lands,
Houses of marble, and billowing farms,
Pearls, to trickle ...
DOROTHY PARKER Why is it no one ever sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my ...
DOROTHY PARKER By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing,
And he vows his passion is
Infi...
DOROTHY PARKER Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn, the word
DOROTHY PARKER They laid their hands upon my head,
They stroked my cheek and brow;
And time could heal a hu...
DOROTHY PARKER Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
DOROTHY PARKER I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back ...
DOROTHY PARKER Gratitude -- the meanest and most sniveling attribute in the world.
DOROTHY PARKER I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
DOROTHY PARKER Where's the man could ease a heart, like a satin gown?
DOROTHY PARKER Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
DOROTHY PARKER Four be the things I am wiser to know:
Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
Four be the th...
DOROTHY PARKER 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 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.
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DOROTHY PARKER 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 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 Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded
wheelchair.
DOROTHY PARKER Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
DOROTHY PARKER Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses.
DOROTHY PARKER 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 DOROTHY PARKER Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night.
DOROTHY PARKER I never see that prettiest thing-
A cherry bough gone white with Spring-
But what I think,...
DOROTHY PARKER Résumé
Razors pain you,
Rivers are damp,
Acids stain you,
And drugs cau...
DOROTHY PARKER The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant - and let the air out ...
DOROTHY PARKER The only "ism" Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
DOROTHY PARKER If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit suprised.
DOROTHY PARKER The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the prettiest love stories ...
DOROTHY PARKER My land is bare of chattering folk;
the clouds are low along the ridges,
and sweet's the air...
DOROTHY PARKER One more drink and I'll be under the host.
DOROTHY PARKER Ducking for apples - change one letter and it's the story of my life.
DOROTHY PARKER I went to a convent in New York and was fired finally for my insistence that the Immaculate Concepti...
DOROTHY PARKER Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is thing that can n...
DOROTHY PARKER Scratch an actor - and you'll find an actress.
DOROTHY PARKER I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
DOROTHY PARKER Travel, trouble, music, art,
A kiss, a frock, a rhyme -
I never said they feed my heart, DOROTHY PARKER Men seldom make passes
At girls who wear glasses.
DOROTHY PARKER That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it wa...
DOROTHY PARKER Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.
DOROTHY PARKER If wild my breast and sore my pride,
I bask in dreams of suicide,
If cool my heart and high ...
DOROTHY PARKER If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised.
DOROTHY PARKER I've never been a millionaire but I just know I'd be darling at it.
DOROTHY PARKER I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound -...
DOROTHY PARKER I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true.
DOROTHY PARKER A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
DOROTHY PARKER The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of t...
DOROTHY PARKER Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can...
DOROTHY PARKER Art is a form of catharsis.
DOROTHY PARKER I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I'm under the table,
afte...
DOROTHY PARKER The two most beautiful words in the English language are: Check Enclosed.
DOROTHY PARKER If, with the literate, I am/ Impelled to try an epigram,/ I never seek to take the credit;/ We all a...
DOROTHY PARKER Q: What's the difference between an enzyme and a hormone?
A: You can't hear an enzyme.
DOROTHY PARKER Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life.
DOROTHY PARKER She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go.
DOROTHY PARKER I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
DOROTHY PARKER This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it."
DOROTHY PARKER Tell him I was too fucking busy-- or vice versa.
DOROTHY PARKER Don't look at me in that tone of voice.
DOROTHY PARKER tomorrow's gone-we'll have tonight!
DOROTHY PARKER This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.
DOROTHY PARKER He has a capacity for enjoyment so vast that he gives away great chunks to those about him, and neve...
DOROTHY PARKER This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it.
DOROTHY PARKER Woman wants monogamy; / Man delights in novelty. / Love is woman's moon and sun; / Man has other for...
DOROTHY PARKER I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy.
DOROTHY PARKER The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.
DOROTHY PARKER If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be ...
DOROTHY PARKER Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
DOROTHY PARKER I am never going to be famous...I do not do anything. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails,...
DOROTHY PARKER Excuse my dust
DOROTHY PARKER Check enclosed.
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DOROTHY PARKER I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know...
DOROTHY PARKER There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
DOROTHY PARKER A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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DOROTHY PARKER Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
DOROTHY PARKER "The House Beautiful" is the play lousy
DOROTHY PARKER I won't telephone him. I'll never telephone him again as long as I live. He'll rot in hell, before I...
DOROTHY PARKER And if my heart be scarred and burned,
The safer, I, for all I learned.
DOROTHY PARKER I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back ...
DOROTHY PARKER Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
DOROTHY PARKER Prince or commoner, tenor or bass,
Painter or plumber or never-do-well,
Do me a favor and ...
DOROTHY PARKER They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
DOROTHY PARKER I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
DOROTHY PARKER I don't know," she said. "We used to squabble a lot when we were going together and then engaged and...
DOROTHY PARKER As only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night.
DOROTHY PARKER We're glad to have been taken seriously. What we're looking for is that if we walk into a Pick 'n Sa...
DOROTHY PARKER We wanted corporate to know we expected better.
DOROTHY PARKER . . . as for helping me in the outside world, the Convent taught me only that if you spit on a penci...
DOROTHY PARKER And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the r...
DOROTHY PARKER [We look like] a road company of the Last Supper.
DOROTHY PARKER If all the girls who attended the Harvard-Yale game were laid end to end, I wouldn't be surprised
DOROTHY PARKER I misremember who first was cruel enough to nurture the cocktail party into life. But perhaps it wou...
DOROTHY PARKER She (Katherine Hepburn) runs the gamut of emotions from A to B
DOROTHY PARKER Every love's the love before in a duller dress
DOROTHY PARKER This living, this living, this living/ Was never a project of mine.
DOROTHY PARKER The doctors were very brave about it.
DOROTHY PARKER I want people to learn something they didn't know, ... We hope people have fun and learn about our c...
DOROTHY PARKER This is on me.
DOROTHY PARKER That woman speaks 18 languages and can't say "No" in any of them
DOROTHY PARKER Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship.
DOROTHY PARKER Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts a...
DOROTHY PARKER Some men break your heart in two,/ Some men fawn and flatter,/ Some men never look at you;/ And that...
DOROTHY PARKER I can't write five words but that I change seven.
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 th...
DOROTHY PARKER Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart.
DOROTHY PARKER Authors and actors and artists and such - Never know nothing, and never know much
DOROTHY PARKER You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think.
DOROTHY PARKER It's a small apartment, I've barely enough room to lay my hat and a few friends.
DOROTHY PARKER Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow.
DOROTHY PARKER Excuse me, everybody, I have to go to the bathroom. I really have to telephone, but I'm too embarras...
DOROTHY PARKER Somebody was using the pencil.
DOROTHY PARKER That would be a good thing for them to carve on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it ...
DOROTHY PARKER A list of authors who have made themselves most beloved and therefore, most comfortable financially,...
DOROTHY PARKER I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be a darling at it.
DOROTHY PARKER Byron and Shelley and Keats/ Were a trio of lyrical treats.
DOROTHY PARKER That woman speaks eight languages and can't say no in any of them.
DOROTHY PARKER "Cheque enclosed" are the two most beautiful words in the English language
DOROTHY PARKER She looks as new as a peeled egg
DOROTHY PARKER She looks like something that would eat its young
DOROTHY PARKER I was fired from there, finally, for a lot of things, among them my insistence that the Immaculate C...
DOROTHY PARKER By the time you swear you are his, shivering and sighing, And he vows his passion is infinite and un...
DOROTHY PARKER Too fucking busy, and vice versa. [Reply to her editor who was bugging her for her belated work whil...
DOROTHY PARKER They sicken of the calm, who know the storm
DOROTHY PARKER People are more fun than any body
DOROTHY PARKER I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicule...
DOROTHY PARKER I suppose that now if I ever wrote a play about myself I'd be sued for plagiarism
DOROTHY PARKER There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simp...
DOROTHY PARKER Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
DOROTHY PARKER Lips that taste of tears, they say/ Are the best for kissing.
DOROTHY PARKER I wish I could drink like a lady / I can take one or two at the most / Three and I'm under the table...
DOROTHY PARKER My land is bare of chattering folk; / the clouds are low along the ridges, / and sweet's the air wit...
DOROTHY PARKER The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe!
DOROTHY PARKER This is on me. [suggested for her tombstone]
DOROTHY PARKER Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to exci...
DOROTHY PARKER Money is only congealed snow.
DOROTHY PARKER Why, that dog is practically a Phi Beta Kappa. She can sit up and beg, and she can give her paw -- I...
DOROTHY PARKER I hate writing, I love having written.
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