373 Quotes by Dorothy Parker

Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.

Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.

Her mind lives tidily, apart from cold and noise and pain. And bolts the door against her heart, out wailing in the rain.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, a medley of extemporanea, And love is a thing that can never go wrong, and I am Marie of Romania.

There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about it.

I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.

What is life, anyway? A death sentence. The longest distance between two points.

She can sit up and beg, and she can give her paw – I don’t say she will, but she can.

But I don’t give up; I forget why not.