Quotes by Parker, Dorothy

"They sicken at the calm that know the storm."

Parker, Dorothy on adversity
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"Brevity is the soul of lingerie."

Parker, Dorothy on dress   

"Where's the man could ease a heart, like a satin gown?"

Parker, Dorothy on dress   

"Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness."

Parker, Dorothy on etiquette
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"Why is it no one ever sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect rose."

Parker, Dorothy on giving   

"I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true."

Parker, Dorothy on gossip   

"Gratitude -- the meanest and most sniveling attribute in the world."

Parker, Dorothy on gratitude   

"Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are."

Parker, Dorothy on hollywood   

"I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back on. I can't imagine how I did it. When I got away from it I couldn't even refer to the place by name. Out there, I called it."

Parker, Dorothy on hollywood   

"You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think."

Parker, Dorothy on leadership
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"I shall stay the way I am because I do not give a damn."

Parker, Dorothy on apathy
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"Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away."

Parker, Dorothy on love
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"Scratch a lover, and find a foe."

Parker, Dorothy on love
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"I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid."

Parker, Dorothy on men
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"He [Robert Benchley] and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery."

Parker, Dorothy on office   

"Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host."

Parker, Dorothy on art   

"Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)"

Parker, Dorothy on art   

"She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B."

Parker, Dorothy on acting and actors   

"Art is a form of catharsis."

Parker, Dorothy on art   

"All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me."

Parker, Dorothy on autobiography   

"Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you."

Parker, Dorothy on pregnancy   

"Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion."

Parker, Dorothy on sorrow   

"This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force."

Parker, Dorothy on books - reading
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"Razors pain you; rivers are damp; acids stain you; and drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful; you might as well live."

Parker, Dorothy on suicide
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"It's not the tragedies that kill us, it's the messes."

Parker, Dorothy on tragedies   

"Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words."

Parker, Dorothy on wit
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"There's a helluva distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words."

Parker, Dorothy on wit   

"The two most beautiful words in the English language are: Check Enclosed."

Parker, Dorothy on words
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"Work is the province of cattle."

Parker, Dorothy on work   

"If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the fact that it's the best you can do that kills you."

Parker, Dorothy on writers and writing   

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

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

Parker, Dorothy on criticism   

"Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, / A melody of extemporanea; / And love is a thing that can never go wrong; / And I am Marie of Roumania "

Parker, Dorothy on   

"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy."

Parker, Dorothy on drink