I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true.
- Dorothy Parker
Men seldom make passes
At girls who wear glasses.
- Dorothy Parker, Not So Deep as a Well (1937), "News Item"
They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
- Dorothy Parker
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 any thing.
Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but
I don't even do that any more.
- Dorothy Parker, Here Lies (1939), "The Little Hours"
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 Roumania.
- Dorothy Parker, Not So Deep as a Well (1937), "Comment"
She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.
- Dorothy Parker, speaking of Katharine Hepburn
I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations
beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things.
- 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
If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
- Dorothy Parker
Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.
- Dorothy Parker
The best way to keep children home is to make the home
atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.
- Dorothy Parker
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly.
It should be thrown with great force.
- Dorothy Parker
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone:
Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
- Dorothy Parker, 'But the One on the Right,' in New Yorker, 1929
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