01UndatedBy the time you swear you're his,Shivering and sighing.And he vows his passion is,Infinite, undying.Lady make note of this --One of you is lying.Dorothy Parker / quote ↗
02UndatedIn youth, it was a way I had,To do my best to please.And change, with every passing ladTo suit his theories.But now I know the things I knowAnd do the things I do,And if you do not like me so,To hell, my love, with you.Dorothy Parker / quote ↗
03Undatedur be the things I am wiser to know:Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.Four be the things I'd been better without:Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.Three be the things I shall never attain:Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.Three be the things I shall have till I die:Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.Dorothy Parker / quote ↗
04UndatedI won't telephone him. I'll never telephone him again as long as I live. He'll rot in hell, before I'll call him up. You don't have to give me strength, God; I have it myself. If he wanted me, he could get me. He knows where I am. He knows I'm waiting here. He's so sure of me, so sure. I wonder why they hate you, as soon as they are sure of you.Dorothy Parker / quote ↗
05UndatedLove is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.Dorothy Parker / quote ↗
06UndatedThe sun's gone dim, and the moon's gone black. For I loved him, and he didn't love back.Dorothy Parker / quote ↗
08UndatedAnd if my heart be scarred and burned,The safer, I, for all I learned.Dorothy Parker / quote ↗
11UndatedIf you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.Dorothy Parker / quote ↗
14UndatedI don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.Dorothy Parker / quote ↗
15UndatedI like to have a martini,Two at the very most.After three I'm under the table,after four I'm under my host.Dorothy Parker / quote ↗
16UndatedThat would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.Dorothy Parker / quote ↗
18UndatedThat woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.Dorothy Parker / quote ↗
20UndatedI require three things in a man: he must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.Dorothy Parker / quote ↗
21UndatedThere's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.", Summer 1956]Dorothy Parker / quote ↗
23UndatedFour be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.Dorothy Parker / quote ↗
24UndatedThe best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.Dorothy Parker / quote ↗
