373 Quotes by Dorothy Parker

Anthologists are lazy fellows who like to spend a quiet evening at home raiding good books.

I misremember who first was cruel enough to nurture the cocktail party into life. But perhaps it would be not too much to say, in fact it would be not enough to say, that it was not worth the trouble.

There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

I’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.

There are times when images blow to fluff, and comparisons stiffen and shrivel.

I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.

Benchley and I had an office in the old Life magazine that was so tiny, if it were an inch smaller it would have been adultery.

Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.

And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.