Dorothy Parker

That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.

Brevity is the soul of lingerie.

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.

I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.

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.

Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common.

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.

ur 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.

I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.

It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard.

And if my heart be scarred and burned,The safer, I, for all I learned.

Don't look at me in that tone of voice.

I don't know," she said. "We used to squabble a lot when we were going together and then engaged and everything, but I thought everything would be so different as soon as you were married. And now I feel so sort of strange and everything. I feel so sort of alone.

Prince or commoner, tenor or bass,Painter or plumber or never-do-well,Do me a favor and shut your face -Poets alone should kiss and tell.

You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.

Work is the province of cattle.