quotes by Dorothy Parker

"The cure for boredom is curiosity.
There is no cure for curiosity."
— Dorothy Parker

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

"I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it."
— Dorothy Parker

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

"Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone."
— Dorothy Parker

"(When asked to use "horticulture" in a sentence) You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think. "
— Dorothy Parker (The Portable Dorothy Parker)

"What fresh hell is this?"
— Dorothy Parker (The Portable Dorothy Parker (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition))

"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."
— Dorothy Parker

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

"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 anything. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails. But I don't even do that anymore."
— Dorothy Parker

"She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go."
— Dorothy Parker

"I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I'm under the table,
after four I'm under my host. "
— Dorothy Parker

"They sicken of the calm who know the storm."
— Dorothy Parker

"I had been fed, in my youth, a lot of old wives' tales about the way men would instantly forsake a beautiful woman to flock around a brilliant one. It is but fair to say that, after getting out in the world, I had never seen this happen."
— Dorothy Parker

"Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses. "
— Dorothy Parker

"Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both."
— Dorothy Parker

"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

"Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt."
— Dorothy Parker

"Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common."
— 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