“ She realizes she doesn't know as much as God but feels she knows as much as God knew when he was her age. Dorothy Parker
“ Four be the things I am wiser to know:Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.Four be the things I'd been better without:Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.Three be the things I shall never attain:Env… Dorothy Parker
“ I like to have a martini,Two at the very most.After three I'm under the table,after four I'm under my host. Dorothy Parker
“ That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment. Dorothy Parker
“ I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me. I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do anything. Not one… Dorothy Parker
“ Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night. Dorothy Parker
“ This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it. Dorothy Parker
“ And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word. Dorothy Parker
“ In youth, it was a way I had,To do my best to please.And change, with every passing ladTo suit his theories.But now I know the things I knowAnd do the things I do,And if you do not like me so,To hell,… Dorothy Parker
“ If, with the literate, I amImpelled to try an epigram,I never seek to take the credit;We all assume that Oscar said it. Dorothy Parker
“ I find her anecdotes more efficacious than sheep-counting, rain on a tin roof, or alanol tablets.... you will find me and Morpheus, off in a corner, necking. Dorothy Parker
