Dorothy Parker Quotes on Humor
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Excuse my dust.
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That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
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One more drink and I'd have been under the host.
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There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.
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[On her abortion] It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard.
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I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
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She must have done it sliding down a barrister.
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Time doth flit; oh shit.
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What fresh hell is this?
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Not Much Fun.
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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.'
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Gee Moss, imagine what God could do if he had your money
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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.