Quote #41

Tallulah Bankhead: 'Why, it's as easy as ducking for apples.' Dorothy Parker: 'Hah, change one letter in that sentence and you've got the story of my life.'

More from Dorothy Parker

  1. Not Much Fun.
  2. Gee Moss, imagine what God could do if he had your money
  3. What fresh hell is this?
  4. When she and Clare Boothe Luce were entering a room, Clare hung back, saying, 'Age before beauty'; Dorothy entered saying 'Pearls before sw…
  5. Time doth flit; oh shit.
  6. If you want to know what the Lord God thinks of money, just look at those to whom he gives it.
  7. This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it.
  8. Upon my honor I saw a Madonna Standing in a niche Over the door Of the prominent whore Of a prominent son of a bitch.

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