373 Quotes by Dorothy Parker

What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.

I wanted to be cute. That’s the terrible thing. I should have had more sense.

The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.

You can’t take it with you, and even if you did, it would probably melt.

Guns aren’t lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful. So you might as well live.

Hollywood is one place in the world where you can die of encouragement.

Authors and actors and artists and such – Never know nothing, and never know much.

Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.

Innocence is a desirable thing, a dainty thing, an appealing thing, in its place; but carried too far, it is merely ridiculous.