373 Quotes by Dorothy Parker

This isn’t my head I’ve got on now. I think this is something that used to belong to Walt Whitman.

I know that ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.

Q: What's the difference between an enzyme and a hormone?A: You can't hear an enzyme.

So, you're the man who can't spell 'fuck.'" Dorothy Parker to Norman Mailer after publishers had convinced Mailer to replace the word with a euphemism, 'fug,' in his 1948 book, "The Naked and the Dead.

I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a great work. But this is no great work, you see.

Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.

How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack.

Penelope In the pathway of the sun, In the footsteps of the breeze,Where the world and sky are one, He shall ride the silver seas, He shall cut the glittering wave.I shall sit at home, and rock;Rise, to heed a neighbor's knock;Brew my tea, and snip my thread;Bleach the linen for my bed. They will call him brave.

All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted.