Quote

I wanted to be cute. That's the terrible thing. I should have had more sense.

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
Thing
Cute
Terrible
Sense
Wanted

More quotes by Dorothy Parker

Image
This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
Dorothy Parker
Image
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
Image
The ones I like are ‘cheque’ and ‘enclosed.’
Dorothy Parker
Image
[On Kay Strozzi in The Silent Witness:] Miss Strozzi ... had the temerity to wear as truly horrible a gown as ever I have seen on the American stage. ... Had she not luckily been strangled by a member of the cast while disporting this garment, I should have fought my way to the stage and done her in, myself.
Dorothy Parker
Image
Money is only congealed snow.
Dorothy Parker
Image
There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
Dorothy Parker
Image
[At the reception following her remarriage to Alan Campbell:] People who haven't talked to each other in years are on speaking terms again today - including the bride and groom.
Dorothy Parker
Image
They say of me, and so they should, It's doubtful if I come to good. I see acquaintances and friends Accumulating dividends And making enviable names In science, art and parlor games. But I, despite expert advice, Keep doing things I think are nice, And though to good I never come Inseparable my nose and thumb.
Dorothy Parker
Image
If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
Dorothy Parker
Image
Where's the man could ease a heart Like a satin gown?
Dorothy Parker
Image
Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world.
Dorothy Parker
Image
There are times when images blow to fluff, and comparisons stiffen and shrivel.
Dorothy Parker
Image
There was nothing separate about her days. Like drops on the window-pane, they ran together and trickled away.
Dorothy Parker
Image
I was the toast of two continents: Greenland and Australia.
Dorothy Parker
Image
[On William Lyon Phelps's Happiness:] It is second only to a rubber duck as the ideal bathtub companion. It may be held in the hand without causing muscular fatigue ... and it may be read through before the water has cooled. And if it slips down the drain pipe, all right, it slips down the drain pipe.
Dorothy Parker
Image
She will never win him, whose words had shown she feared to lose.
Dorothy Parker
Image
When you have to apologize, it is well, I suppose, to get the thing over quickly.
Dorothy Parker
Image
Scratch a king and find a fool!
Dorothy Parker
Image
[On an actor who'd broken her leg in London:] Oh, how terrible. She must have done it sliding down a barrister.
Dorothy Parker
Image
I regret to say that during the first act of this, I fell so soundly asleep that the gentleman who brought me piled up a barricade of overcoat, hat, stick, and gloves between us to establish a separation in the eyes of the world, and went into an impersonation of A Young Man Who Has Come to the Theater Unaccompanied.
Dorothy Parker