373 Quotes by Dorothy Parker

The sun’s gone dim, and the moon’s gone black. For I loved him, and he didn’t love back.

Every fashion, the fashion before: in a duller dress.

They say of me, and so they should, It’s doubtful if I come to good.

A list of authors who have made themselves most beloved and therefore, most comfortable financially, shows that it is our national joy to mistake for the first-rate, the fecund rate.

Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!

A girl’s best friend is her mutter.

His books are exciting and powerful and – if I may filch the word from the booksy ones – pulsing.

His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.

It takes me six months to do a story. I think it out and write it sentence by sentence – no first draft. I can’t write five words but that I can change seven.