Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker. Dorothy Parker More Quotes by Dorothy Parker More Quotes From Dorothy Parker The ladies men admire, I've heard, Would shudder at a wicked word. Their candle gives a single light, They'd rather stay at home at night. They do not keep awake 'till three, Nor read erotic poetry. They never sanction the impure, Nor recognize an overture. They shrink from powders and from paints... So far I've had no complaints. Dorothy Parker humorous home night There must be courage; there must be no awe. There must be criticism, for humor, to my mind, is encapsulated in criticism. There must be a disciplined eye and a wild mind...There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about it. Dorothy Parker eye criticism mind My love runs by like a day in June, And he makes no friends of sorrows. He'll tread his galloping rigadoon In the pathway of the morrows. He'll live his days where the sunbeams start, Nor could storm or wind uproot him. My own dear love, he is all my heart, -- And I wish somebody'd shoot him. Dorothy Parker june heart running The ones I like are ‘cheque’ and ‘enclosed.’ Dorothy Parker cheques Friends come and go but I wouldn't have thought you'd be one of them Dorothy Parker friends-come-and-go comes-and-goes All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don't catch horses going around looking like people, do you? Dorothy Parker horse business people His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets. Dorothy Parker women voice memorable I might repeat to myself . . . a list of quotations from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things. Dorothy Parker mind might profound A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika. Dorothy Parker fashion nice inspiration The writer's way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats? Dorothy Parker vacancy lonely way The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters. ... Obscenity is too valuable a commodity to chuck around all over the place; it should be taken out of the safe on special occasions only. Dorothy Parker taken beautiful thinking Why, after all, should readers never be harrowed? Surely there is enough happiness in life without having to go to books for it. Dorothy Parker life-happiness enough book Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt. Dorothy Parker doubt inspirational love In the pathway of the sun, In the footsteps of the breeze, Where the world and sky are one, He shall ride the silver seas, He shall cut the glittering wave. I shall sit at home, and rock; Rise, to heed a neighbor's knock; Brew my tea, and snip my thread; Bleach the linen for my bed. They will call him brave. Dorothy Parker rocks cutting home Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses. Dorothy Parker glasses girl men Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart. Dorothy Parker salary body soul I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it. Dorothy Parker darling millionaire inspirational [After she and Clare Boothe Luce met in a doorway and the latter said, 'Age before beauty':] Pearls before swine. Dorothy Parker pearls age doorways On lady novelists: As artists they're rot, but as providers they're oil wells; they gush. Norris said she never wrote a story unless it was fun to do. I understand Ferber whistles at her typewriter. Dorothy Parker typewriters artist fun [On an actor who'd broken her leg in London:] Oh, how terrible. She must have done it sliding down a barrister. Dorothy Parker legs london broken
