Wit Wisdom and Quotes of Dorothy ParkerA collection of wit, wisdom, and quotes from Dorothy Parker on a wide variety of subjects.THE WIT OF DOROTHY PARKER
"If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end-I wouldn't be a bit surprised."
A review of Katharine Hepburn starring in a Broadway play: "She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B."
Suggesting an epitaph for her own gravestone: "Excuse my dust."
Asked to use the word horticulture in a sentence: "You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think."
On a London actress who had broken a leg: "How terrible. She must have done it sliding down a barrister."
"A girl's best friend is her mutter."
"Wit has truth in it. Wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words."
"I bet you could get into the subway without using anybody's name."
Telegram to a friend who went to the country to have a baby: "Congratulations, we all knew you had it in you."
On learning Pres. Calvin Coolidge had died: "Why, I never even knew that he was alive."
"The only ism Hollywood believes in is plagiarism."
On hearing that Clare Boothe Luce was always kind to her inferiors: "And where does she find them?"
On a drunk who kept insisting he was talented: "Look at him, a rhinestone in the rough."
"I was the toast of two continents: Greenland and Australia."
Reviewing A. A. Milne's The House at Pooh Corner and his use of such coy words as tummy in her column "Constant Reader": "Tonstant Weader fwowed up."
On Oscar Wilde and her own wit: If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all assume that Oscar said it.
Lonely in her office, yearning for the company of the opposite sex, she went out and painted one word on her door: MEN.
By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing, And he vows his passion is Infinite, undying- Lady, make a note of this: One of you is lying.
Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses.
"Salary is no object; I want only to keep body and soul apart."
"Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them."
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