373 Quotes by Dorothy Parker

Prince or commoner, tenor or bass, Painter or plumber or never-do-well, Do me a favor and shut your face – Poets alone should kiss and tell.

When you have to apologize, it is well, I suppose, to get the thing over quickly...

He’s always with me, he and all his beauty and his cruelty.

Work is the province of cattle.

I don’t mind anything that’s written about me, as long as it’s not true.

And when it ends, only those places where you have known sorrow are kindly to you. If you revisit the scenes of your happiness, your heart must burst of its agony. And.

I like to think of my shining tombstone. It gives me, as you might say, something to live for.

This must be a gift book. That is to say a book, which you wouldn’t take on any other terms.

Hell’s afloat in lover’s tears.