Author: Dorothy Parker Page 3

You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet
Intelligence Language People Thinking Women

She looks like something that would eat its young.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet
Appearance Insults

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet
Death Places

I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet
Characteristics Communication Reading/Writing Truth

Where does she find them?

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet
Insults

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

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet
Situations

Excuse my dust.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet
Epitaphs Self

There has been but one sweet, misty interlude in my [insomnia]; that was the evening I fell into a dead dreamless slumber brought on by the reading of a book called Appendicitis.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet
Reviews/Criticism

That woman speaks eighteen languages, and she can’t say 'No' in any of them.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet
Communication Insults Intelligence Sex

This book of essays… has all the depth and glitter of a worn dime.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet
Books Reviews/Criticism

Brevity is the soul of lingerie.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet
Appearance Clothing