373 Quotes by Dorothy Parker

This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it."[Women Know Everything!]

Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life.

tomorrow's gone-we'll have tonight!

She is happy, for she knowsThat her dust is very pretty

Ah, clear they see and true they sayThat one shall weep, and one shall stray

If I didn't care for fun and such,I'd probably amount to much.But I shall stay the way I am,Because I do not give a damn.

A Very Short Song Once, when I was young and true, Someone left me sad- Broke my brittle heart in two; And that is very bad. Love is for unlucky folk, Love is but a curse. Once there was a heart I broke; And that, I think, is worse.

You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.

Then she told herself to stop her nonsense. If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them, more easily each time, so easily, soon, that you did not even realize you had gone out searching.