Dorothy Parker Quotes on Life

7 quotes

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

  2. Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

  3. It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes.

  4. There is no such hour on the present clock as 6:30, New York time. Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night.

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

    #28 Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.
  6. The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant - and let the air out of their tires.

  7. 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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