13 Dorothy Parker Quotes on Humor

Dorothy Parker quotes on humor

1. Excuse my dust.

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

14. One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

15. There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.

21. [On her abortion] It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard.

28. I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

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34. She must have done it sliding down a barrister.

38. Time doth flit; oh shit.

39. What fresh hell is this?

40. Not Much Fun.

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.'

42. Gee Moss, imagine what God could do if he had your money

45. 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.