Dorothy Parker
cure boredom curiosity
"The Cure For Boredom Is Curiosity. There Is No Cure For Curiosity."
— Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
beauty skin deep ugly bone
“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.”
― Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
god money people
“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”
― Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
heterosexual normal common
“Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common.”
― Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
martini two table host
“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 (1893-1967)
fuck busy
“Tell him I was too fucking busy-- or vice versa.”
― Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
four things know without champagne die
"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:
Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
Three be the things I shall have till I die:
Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.”
― Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
hangover wrath grapes
“A hangover is the wrath of grapes.”
― Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
women elephant forget
“Women and elephants never forget.”
― Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
bottle front frontal lobotomy
“I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.”
― Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
envy content champagne
“Three be the things I shall never attain:
Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.”
― Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
young bold strong old good bad
“When I was young and bold and strong,
The right was right, the wrong was wrong.
With plume on high and flag unfurled,
I rode away to right the world.
But now I’m old - and good and bad,
Are woven in a crazy plaid.
I sit and say the world is so,
And wise is s/he who lets it go.”
― Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
teach old dogma new trick
“You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.”
― Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)