Quotes by : Dorothy Parker

They sicken of calm who know the storm.

Now to me, Edith looks like something that would eat her young.

I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know....

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

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

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

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

I shall stay the way I am Because I do not give a damn.

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....

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