373 Quotes by Dorothy Parker

Their pooled emotions wouldn’t fill a teaspoon.

She dreamed by day of never again putting on tight shoes, of never having to laugh and listen and admire, of never more being a good sport. Never.

If you’re going to write, don’t pretend to write down. It’s going to be the best you can do, and it’s the fact that it’s the best you can do that kills you.

Trapped like a trap in a trap.

It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.

Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!

You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.

I wish, I wish I were a poisonous bacterium.

You think You’re frightening me with Your hell, don’t You? You think Your hell is worse than mine.