373 Quotes by Dorothy Parker

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.

The only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.

Dear Mary: We all knew you had it in you.

Art is a form of catharsis emotional release, purging, cleansing, purifying.

They are sad books, filled with sad and skinless people. There are some who do not like such books. The world, too, is crowded with the sorrowful and the sensitive. There are many who do not like such a world.

Flowers are heaven’s masterpiece.

One more drink and I’d have been under the host.

Gratitude – the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world.