373 Quotes by Dorothy Parker

Art is a form of catharsis.

This living, this living, this living Was never a project of mine.

Ah, clear they see and true they say That one shall weep, and one shall stray.

For herself, she declared that she paid no attention to her birthdays – didn’t give a hoot about them; and it is true that when you have amassed several dozen of the same sort of thing, it loses that rarity which is the excitement of collectors.

Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.

Somebody was using the pencil.

People are more fun than anyone.

There was a reason for the cost of those perfectly plain black dresses.

If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.