Famous Quotes / Dorothy Parker
70 Quotations by Dorothy Parker
- 41. Razors pain you; rivers are damp; acids stain you; and drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful; nooses ... 

 - 42. Scratch a lover, and find a foe. 

 - 43. Scratch a lover, and find a foe. 

 - 44. Scratch an actor - and you'll find an actress. 

 - 45. She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B. 

 - 46. Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion. 

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

 - 48. That woman speaks 19 languages and can't say 'no' in any of them. 

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

 - 50. That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it wa ... 

 - 51. The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the prettiest love stories  ... 

 - 52. The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant --- and let the air ou ... 

 - 53. The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. 

 - 54. The only "ism" Hollywood believes in is plagiarism. 

 - 55. The poor man needs not a program, not a plan, just food and a home. 

 - 56. The two most beautiful words in the English language are ``check enclosed.'' 

 - 57. There was never a place for her in the ranks of the terrible, slow army of the cautious. She ran ahe ... 

 - 58. There's a helluva distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply ... 

 - 59. They sicken at the calm that know the storm. 

 - 60. They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm. 
