373 Quotes by Dorothy Parker

I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.

Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.

Let the past die, my child, and go gaily on from its unmarked grave.

I like to have a martini, Two at the very most. After three I’m under the table, after four I’m under my host.

He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.

If I should labor through daylight and dark, Consecrate, valorous, serious, true, Then on the world I may blazon my mark; And what if I don’t, and what if I do?

He lies below, correct in cypress wood, And entertains the most exclusive worms.

I like it better in the dusk, like this. It’s sweet. Dusk is so personal, somehow.