Dorothy Parker Quotes
Dorothy Parker Quotes
I don’t care what is written about me so long as it isn’t true.
- Dorothy Parker
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
- Dorothy Parker, ‘But the One on the Right,’ in New Yorker, 1929
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.
- Dorothy Parker
If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be a bit surprised.
- Dorothy Parker
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
- Dorothy Parker
The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant–and let the air out of the tires.
- Dorothy Parker
Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.
- Dorothy Parker
They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.
- Dorothy Parker, ‘Fair Weather,’ Sunset Gun, 1928
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.
- Dorothy Parker, Here Lies (1939), “The Little Hours”
She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.
- Dorothy Parker, speaking of Katharine Hepburn
