Dorothy Parker

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

I shudder at the thought of men.... I'm due to fall in love again

Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.

Daily dawns another day; I must up, to make my way. Though I dress and drink and eat, Move my fingers and my feet, Learn a little, here and there, Weep and laugh and sweat and swear, Hear a song, or watch a stage, Leave some words upon a page, Claim a foe, or hail a friend- Bed awaits me at the end.

Because your eyes are slant and slow, Because your hair is sweet to touch, My heart is high again; but oh, I doubt if this will get me much.

Accursed from their birth they be Who seek to find monogamy, Pursuing it from bed to bed— I think they would be better dead.

Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.

Friends come and go but I wouldn't have thought you'd be one of them

I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.

I'm of the glamorous ladies At whose beckoning history shook. But you are a man, and see only my pan, So I stay at home with a book.

I don't mind anything that's written about me, as long as it's not true.

If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

Said of her husband on the day their divorce became final: Oh, don't worry about Alan. . . . Alan will always land on somebody's feet.

And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word.

Like many a better one before me, I have gone down under the force of numbers, under the books and books and books that keep coming out and coming out and coming out, shoals of them, spates of them, flash floods of them, too blame many books, and no sign of an end.

Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful. So you might as well live.

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.

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

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