373 Quotes by Dorothy Parker

Once, when I was young and true. Someone left me sad – Broke my brittle heart in two; And that is very bad. Love is for unlucky folk, Love is but a curse. Once there was a heart I broke; And that, I think, is worse.

I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things.

All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don’t catch horses going around looking like people, do you?

I can’t write five words but that I change seven.

Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.

If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.

It’s easier to write about those you hate – just as it’s easier to criticize a bad play or a bad book.

The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.

Nevil Shute’s On the Beach is no Christmas carol, but it seems to me a remarkably fine novel, one which I read, in the peculiarly repulsive phrase, with my eyes glued to the page.