373 Quotes by Dorothy Parker

Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.

Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.

If I didn’t care for fun and such, I’d probably amount to much, but I shall stay the way I am, because I do not give a damn.

I like to have a martini, Two at the very most.

Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn...

For years I have been crouching in corners hissing small and ladylike anathema of Theodore Dreiser.

Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.

Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.

Yes, well, let me tell you that if nobody had ever learned to quote, very few people would be in love with La Rochefoucauld. I bet you I don’t know ten souls who read him without a middleman.