373 Quotes by Dorothy Parker

Four things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.

Where’s the man that could ease a heart like a satin gown?

I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.

I’ve seen the way he dances; it looks like something you do on Saint Walpurgis Night.

The writer’s way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?

Speech to American Horticultural Society; when challenged to use horticulture in a sentence: You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.

People Who Do Things exceed my endurance; God, for a man that solicits insurance!

I am at just that interesting age where i cannot keep out of things. I, too, must be in the know; I, too, must quote and sigh and nod wisely.

Three highballs, and I think I’m St. Francis of Assisi.