Quote

The Monte Carlo casino refused to admit me until I was properly dressed so I went and found my stockings, and then came back and lost my shirt.

Dorothy Parker

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Dorothy Parker
Age: 73 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 22
Died: 1967
Died: June 7
Columnist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Poet
Screenwriter
Songwriter
Writer
West End
Monmouth County
New Jersey
Dorothy Rothschild
Dot Rothschild
Dottie Rothschild
Shirts
Monte
Admit
Casino
Went
Stockings
Came
Casinos
Lost
Refused
Found
Dressed
Back
Shirt
Properly
Carlo

More quotes by Dorothy Parker

Image
Tonstant Weader fwowed up.
Dorothy Parker
Image
All those writers who write about their own childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me.
Dorothy Parker
Image
The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters. ... Obscenity is too valuable a commodity to chuck around all over the place it should be taken out of the safe on special occasions only.
Dorothy Parker
Image
If I had a shiny gun I could have a world of fun Speeding bullets through the brains Of the folks that cause me pains :)
Dorothy Parker
Image
Don't look at me in that tone of voice.
Dorothy Parker
Image
Of Orson Welles: It's like meeting God without dying.
Dorothy Parker
Image
There must be courage there must be no awe. There must be criticism, for humor, to my mind, is encapsulated in criticism. There must be a disciplined eye and a wild mind...There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about it.
Dorothy Parker
Image
Like many a better one before me, I have gone down under the force of numbers, under the books and books and books that keep coming out and coming out and coming out, shoals of them, spates of them, flash floods of them, too blame many books, and no sign of an end.
Dorothy Parker
Image
If wild my breast and sore my pride, I bask in dreams of suicide, If cool my heart and high my head I think 'How lucky are the dead.
Dorothy Parker
Image
Once, when I was young and true. Someone left me sad - Broke my brittle heart in two And that is very bad. Love is for unlucky folk, Love is but a curse. Once there was a heart I broke And that, I think, is worse.
Dorothy Parker
Image
If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
Dorothy Parker
Image
And where does she find them?
Dorothy Parker
Image
People are more fun than anyone.
Dorothy Parker
Image
Where unwilling dies the rose buds the new another year.
Dorothy Parker
Image
ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
Dorothy Parker
Image
Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn.
Dorothy Parker
Image
That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.
Dorothy Parker
Image
There are times when images blow to fluff, and comparisons stiffen and shrivel.
Dorothy Parker
Image
The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
Dorothy Parker
Image
I'm not a writer with a drinking problem, I'm a drinker with a writing problem.
Dorothy Parker