Quotes by

Dorothy Parker

He Robert Benchley and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery. – Dorothy Parker

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

Enjoyed it! One more drink and Id have been under the host. – Dorothy Parker

It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard. – Dorothy Parker

I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three Im under the table,
After four Im under my host! – Dorothy Parker

And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned; The calmer, I, to see it true That ways of love are never new- The love that sets you daft and dazed Is every love that ever blazed; The happier, I, to fathom this: A kiss is every other kiss. – Dorothy Parker

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires. – Dorothy Parker

His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets. – Dorothy Parker

Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words. – Dorothy Parker

Brevity is the soul of lingerie. – Dorothy Parker

Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship. – Dorothy Parker