Dorothy Parker Quotes - Page 3

You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.

Prince or commoner, tenor or bass,
Painter or plumber or never-do-well,
Do me a favor and shut your face -
Poets alone should kiss and tell.

I don't know," she said. "We used to squabble a lot when we were going together and then engaged and everything, but I thought everything would be so different as soon as you were married. And now I feel so sort of strange and everything. I feel so sort of alone.

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.

Why, that dog is practically a Phi Beta Kappa. She can sit up and beg, and she can give her paw - I don't say she will but she can.

A hangover is the wrath of grapes.

I find her anecdotes more efficacious than sheep-counting, rain on a tin roof, or alanol tablets.... you will find me and Morpheus, off in a corner, necking.

This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it.

Now to me, Edith looks like something that would eat her young.

Ducking for apples - change one letter and it's the story of my life.

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

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

Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded
wheelchair.

Some men break your heart in two,
Some men fawn and flatter,
Some men never look at you;
And that cleans up the matter.