373 Quotes by Dorothy Parker

[On Oscar Wilde:]"If, with the literate, I amImpelled to try an epigram,I never seek to take the credit;We all assume that Oscar said it.[Life Magazine, June 2, 1927]

It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard.

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.

I shudder at the thought of men....I'm due to fall in love again

Some men break your heart in two,Some men fawn and flatter,Some men never look at you;And that cleans up the matter.

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.

Why, that dog is practically a Phi Beta Kappa. She can sit up and beg, and she can give her paw -- I don't say she will but she can.

One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

A hangover is the wrath of grapes.