Inspirational Quotes by Dorothy Parker — Words of Wisdom for Daily Success

“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.”

“I won't telephone him. I'll never telephone him again as long as I live. He'll rot in hell, before I'll call him up. You don't have to give me strength, God; I have it myself. If he wanted me, he could get me. He knows where I am. He knows I'm waiting here. He's so sure of me, so sure. I wonder why they hate you, as soon as they are sure of you.”

“If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.”

“Little Words”

“My love runs by like a day in June,”

“It costs me never a stab nor squirm / To tread by chance upon a worm. / Aha, my little dear, / I say, Your clan will pay me back one day.”

“But I give you my word, in the entire book there is nothing that cannot be said aloud in mixed company. And there is, also, nothing that makes you a bit the wiser. I wonder--oh, what will you think of me--if those two statements do not verge upon the synonymous.”

“In youth, it was a way I had,”

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

“Be you wise and never sad,”

“If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised.”

“The two most beautiful words in the English language are 'check enclosed.”

“Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.”

“Three be the things I shall never attain:”

“Men”

“The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.”

“I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true.”

“There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.”

“I require three things in a man: he must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.”

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

“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,”

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

“Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common.”

“Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.”

““By the time you swear you're his,”