373 Quotes by Dorothy Parker

Four be the things I’d have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.

The House Beautiful is the play lousy.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand.

If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.

A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.

Men don’t like nobility in woman. Not any men. I suppose it is because the men like to have the copyrights on nobility – if there is going to be anything like that in a relationship.

Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.

Sometimes I think I’ll give up trying, and just go completely Russian and sit on a stove and moan all day.

Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.