373 Quotes by Dorothy Parker

I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.

Excuse me, everybody, I have to go to the bathroom. I really have to telephone, but I’m too embarrassed to say so.

Now that you’ve got me right down to it, the only thing I didn’t like about The Barrets of Wimplole Street was the play.

You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.

Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.

If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them...

I don’t want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.

Woman wants monogamy; Man delights in novelty. Love is woman’s moon and sun; Man has other forms of fun. Woman lives but in her lord; Count to ten, and man is bored. With this the gist and sum of it, What earthly good can come of it?

Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.