121 Quotes By Dorothy Parker For Cultivating Take No Prisoners Attitude
Dorothy Parker was a famed American critic, short story writer, poet and satirist. She is till date revered for her wisecracks and wit. Parker had a troubled childhood, but she broke the shackles of her past and gained recognition not just for her literary publications in ‘The New Yorker’ but also as the charter member of the ‘Algonquin Round Table’. When the circle parted ways, she moved to Hollywood to pursue a career in screenwriting. She also bagged in two ‘Academy Award’ nominations for her prolific writing. Her involvement in left-wing politics however, led her to Hollywood blacklist. Nevertheless, her literary works, thoughts, opinions and writings have endured up to this date. As luck would have it many of her thoughts, sayings, words and quotes fit the bill in today’s world. Read through the popular quotes and thoughts by Dorothy Parker to have a glimpse at her funny side.
Women and elephants never forget.
![[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/dorothy-parker-82298.jpg)
[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
The Monte Carlo casino refused to admit me until I was properly dressed so I went and found my stockings, and then came back and lost my shirt.
Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.
I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
![[On hearing that Clare Boothe Luce was invariably kind to her inferiors:] And where does she find them?](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/dorothy-parker-82290.jpg)
[On hearing that Clare Boothe Luce was invariably kind to her inferiors:] And where does she find them?
What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
Well, there are always those who cannot distinguish between glitter and glamour . . . the glamour of Isadora Duncan came from her great, torn, bewildered, foolhardy soul.
Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
Writing well is the best revenge.
There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
Now, look, baby, 'Union' is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life.
This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
![[On Katharine Hepburn's stage performance:] She ran the whole gamut of emotions, from A to B.](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/dorothy-parker-82284.jpg)
[On Katharine Hepburn's stage performance:] She ran the whole gamut of emotions, from A to B.
The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!
That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.
The affair between Margot Asquinth and Margot Asquinth will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature.
Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common.
I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
![[After she and Clare Boothe Luce met in a doorway and the latter said, 'Age before beauty':] Pearls before swine.](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/dorothy-parker-82269.jpg)
[After she and Clare Boothe Luce met in a doorway and the latter said, 'Age before beauty':] Pearls before swine.
