Dorothy Rothschild Parker Quotations

Where's the man could ease a heart / Like a satin gown?

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.

Scratch an actor and you'll find an actress.

She (Katherine Hepburn) runs the gamut of emotions from A to B

Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses

Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.

I'd like to have money. And I'd like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that's too adorable, I'd rather have money.

Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.

If all the girls who attended the Harvard-Yale game were laid end to end, I wouldn't be surprised

If all the girls at Brandeis were laid end-to-end, I wouldn't be surprised

Her mind lives tidily, apart/ From cold and noise and pain,/ And bolts the door against her heart,/ Out wailing in the rain.

I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.

Some men break your heart in two,/ Some men fawn and flatter,/ Some men never look at you;/ And that cleans up the matter.

Look at him, a rhinestone in the rough.

Lips that taste of tears, they say/ Are the best for kissing.

That woman speaks eight languages and can't say no in any of them.

Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.

Why is it no one ever sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect rose.

This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.

Every love's the love before in a duller dress

Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship.

And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word.

Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart.

People Who Do things, exceed my endurance;/ God, for a man that solicits insurance!

Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!

The moon's turned black; For I love him, and He didn't love back

Authors and actors and artists and such - Never know nothing, and never know much

As only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night.

This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.

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.

Accursed from birth they be Who seek to find monogamy Pursuing it from bed to bed I think they would be better dead

It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard.

It's a small apartment, I've barely enough room to lay my hat and a few friends.

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

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

Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.

Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.

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

By the time you swear you are his, shivering and sighing, And he vows his passion is infinite and undying- Lady, make a note of this: One of you is lying

Cheque enclosed"" are the two most beautiful words in the English language

If I had any decency, I'd be dead. Most of my friends are.

I can't write five words but that I change seven.

Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world.

All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me.