Quotes by : Dorothy Parker

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

A Very Short Song Once, when I was young and true, Someone left me sad- Broke my brittle heart in two;....

Scratch a lover and find a foe.

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

You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.

There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and....

Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.

She realizes she doesn't know as much as God but feels she knows as much as God knew when he was her....

Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.

He'll be cross if he sees I have been crying. They don't like you to cry. He doesn't cry. I wish to God....