373 Quotes by Dorothy Parker

It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes.

He and I had an office so tiny, that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.

Because your eyes are slant and slow,Because your hair is sweet to touch,My heart is high again; but oh,I doubt if this will get me much.

Well, well. Isn't it a small world? And a peach of a world, too. A true little corker.

You don’t want a general houseworker, do you? Or a traveling companion, quiet, refined, speaks fluent French entirely in the present tense? Or an assistant billiard-maker? Or a private librarian? Or a lady car-washer? Because if you do, I should appreciate your giving me a trial at the job. Any minute now, I am going to become one of the Great Unemployed. I am about to leave literature flat on its face. I don’t want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.

La cura para el aburrimiento es la curiosidad. Para la curiosidad no existe cura.

There was always something immensely comic to her in the thought of living elsewhere than New York. She could not regard as serious proposals that she share a western residence.

Like many a better one before me, I have gone down under the force of numbers, under the books and books and books that keep coming out and coming out and coming out, shoals of them, spates of them, flash floods of them, too blame many books, and no sign of an end.

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.