373 Quotes by Dorothy Parker

Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.

Be you wise and never sad, You will get your lovely lad. Never serious be, nor true, And your wish will come to you – And if that makes you happy, kid, You’ll be the first it ever did.

But I give you my word, in the entire book there is nothing that cannot be said aloud in mixed company. And there is, also, nothing that makes you a bit the wiser. I wonder – oh, what will you think of me – if those two statements do not verge upon the synonymous.

Newton’s Fourth Law: Every action has an equal and opposite satisfaction.

Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.

Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.

Why, after all, should readers never be harrowed? Surely there is enough happiness in life without having to go to books for it.

We were all imitative. We all wandered in after Miss Edna St. Vincent Millay. We were all being dashing and gallant, declaring we weren’t virgins, whether we were or not.

Accursed from their birth they be Who seek to find monogamy, Pursuing it from bed to bed – I think they would be better dead.