Quotes from Dorothy Parker

Runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.

How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack. I might try busting myself smartly over the temple with the night-light. 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.

Don't look at me in that tone of voice.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Guns aren't lawful;Nooses give;Gas smells awful;You might as well live.

Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship.

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

By the time you're his Shivering and sighing, And he vows his passion is Infinite, undying Lady, make a note of this: One of you is lying.

Coolidge is dead" "How could they tell?

Every year, back come Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.

His voice was a intimate as the rustle of sheets.

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

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea And love is a thing that can never go wrong And I am Marie of Roumania.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature.

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

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

The two most beautiful words in the English language are ``check enclosed.'

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

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

They sicken of the calm that know the storm.

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

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.

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