Dorothy Parker

The best way...

The best way...

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

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I only want...

I only want...

I only want enough to keep the body and soul apart.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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It's like meeting...

It's like meeting...

It's like meeting God without dying.

Source: Of Orson Welles.
-- Dorothy Parker,...

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I shall stay...

I shall stay...

I shall stay the way I am because I do not give a damn.

Source: In

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Money cannot buy...

Money cannot buy...

Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.

Source:...

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Most good women...

Most good women...

Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.

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Women and elephants...

Women and elephants...

Women and elephants never forget.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for Success,...

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There was never...

There was never...

There was never a place for her in the ranks of the terrible, slow army of the cautious. She ran ahead, where there...

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If all the...

If all the...

If all the girls attending it were laid end to end - I wouldn't be at all surprised.

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I know that...

I know that...

I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicule may be a shield,...

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Seventy-two suburbs in...

Seventy-two suburbs in...

Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.

Source: Of Los Angeles, but others are...

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She ran the...

She ran the...

She ran the whole gamut of her emotions from A to B.

Source: Of Katharine Hepburn...

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And there was...

And there was...

And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right...

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Somebody was using...

Somebody was using...

Somebody was using the pencil.

Source: On why she missed a in New Yorker, deadline;...

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There must be...

There must be...

There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about...

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How could they...

How could they...

How could they tell?

Source: On being told of the death of former President Calvin...

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There must be...

There must be...

There must be courage; there must be no awe. There must be criticism, for humor, to my mind, is encapsulated in...

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As artists they're...

As artists they're...

As artists they're rot, but as providers they're oil wells; they gush. Norris said she never wrote a story unless it...

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The doctors were...

The doctors were...

The doctors were very brave about it.

Source: Said after she had been seriously...

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This is on...

This is on...

This is on me.

Source: Suggested epitaph for her own tombstone; in You Might As...

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