373 Quotes by Dorothy Parker

The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.

It was written without fear and without research.

And where does she find them?

I’m of the glamorous ladies At whose beckoning history shook. But you are a man, and see only my pan, So I stay at home with a book.

That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.

I wouldn’t touch a superlative again with an umbrella.

On lady novelists: As artists they’re rot, but as providers they’re oil wells; they gush. Norris said she never wrote a story unless it was fun to do. I understand Ferber whistles at her typewriter.

If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all assume that Oscar said it.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song.