Dorothy Parker Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

26 Famous Quotes by Dorothy Parker
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“When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken.”
Bankers and banks Quotes
“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone”
Beauty Quotes
“This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.”
Books Quotes
“Brevity is the soul of lingerie.”
Brevity Quotes
“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”
Cure Quotes
“I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do any thing. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.”
Fame Quotes
“Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world.”
Gratitude Quotes
“Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.”
Idleness Quotes
“Misfortune tests friends, and detects enemies”
Misfortune Quotes
“Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman away.”
Shame Quotes
“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 Rumania”
Songs Quotes
“Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.”
Money Quotes
“I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.”
The sexes Quotes
“Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses.”
Girls Quotes
“Well, there are always those who cannot distinguish between glitter and glamour . . . the glamour of Isadora Duncan came from her great, torn, bewildered, foolhardy soul.”
Glamour Quotes
“Scratch a lover, and find a foe.”
Lovers Quotes
“Men don't like nobility in woman. Not any men. I suppose it is because the men like to have the copyrights on nobility -- if there is going to be anything like that in a relationship.”
Nobility Quotes
“I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.”
Ridicule Quotes
“It's not the tragedies that kill us, it's the messes.”
Tragedy Quotes
“Sorrow is tranquillity remembered in emotion.”
Tranquility Quotes
“His voice was intimate as the rustle of sheets.”
Voice Quotes
“Brevity is the soul of lingerie.”
Brevity Quotes
“Her mind lives tidily, apart From cold and noise and pain, And bolts the door against her heart, Out wailing in the rain.”
Wail Quotes
“Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.”
Wit Quotes
“He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.”
Business Quotes