Famous Quotes by Dorothy Parker

Below are famous quotes by Dorothy Parker - US author, humorist, poet, & wit (1893 - 1967).

"Coolidge is dead"
"How could they tell?

A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.

Brevity is the soul of lingerie.

Every year, back come Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.

His voice was a intimate as the rustle of sheets.

I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things.

I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.

I went to a convent in New York and was fired finally for my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was spontaneous combustion.

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.

Men seldom make passes
At girls who wear glasses.

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

Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.

The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature.

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant - and let the air out of the tires.

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant --- and let the air out of their tires.

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

The only "ism" Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.

The two most beautiful words in the English language are ``check enclosed.'

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

Trapped, like a trap in a trap.

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