I wish he were dead. That’s a terrible wish. That’s a lovely wish. If he were dead, he would be mine. If he were dead, I would never think of now and the last few weeks. I would remember only the lovely times. It would be all beautiful. I wish he were dead. I wish he were dead, dead, dead.

— Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Parker Quotes

Their pooled emotions wouldn’t fill a teaspoon.

— Dorothy Parker

You can’t take it with you, and even if you did, it would probably melt.

— Dorothy Parker

Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.

— Dorothy Parker

I am at just that interesting age where i cannot keep out of things. I, too, must be in the know; I, too, must quote and sigh and nod wisely.

— Dorothy Parker

He’s always with me, he and all his beauty and his cruelty.

— Dorothy Parker

He and I had an office so tiny, that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.

— Dorothy Parker

I like it better in the dusk, like this. It’s sweet. Dusk is so personal, somehow.

— Dorothy Parker

What is life, anyway? A death sentence. The longest distance between two points.

— Dorothy Parker

Mrs. Whittaker’s dress was always studiously suited to its occasion; thus, her bearing had always that calm that only the correctly attired may enjoy.

— Dorothy Parker

I don’t ask You to make it easy for me – You can’t do that, for all that You could make a world.

— Dorothy Parker

Let the past die, my child, and go gaily on from its unmarked grave.

— Dorothy Parker

For herself, she declared that she paid no attention to her birthdays – didn’t give a hoot about them; and it is true that when you have amassed several dozen of the same sort of thing, it loses that rarity which is the excitement of collectors.

— Dorothy Parker

Honest, I won’t ever do it again. I’ll go straight, after this. I’ll never go to bed again, if I can only sleep now.

— Dorothy Parker

I’ve seen the way he dances; it looks like something you do on Saint Walpurgis Night.

— Dorothy Parker

They are sad books, filled with sad and skinless people. There are some who do not like such books. The world, too, is crowded with the sorrowful and the sensitive. There are many who do not like such a world.

— Dorothy Parker

And when it ends, only those places where you have known sorrow are kindly to you. If you revisit the scenes of your happiness, your heart must burst of its agony. And.

— Dorothy Parker

I wish he were dead. That’s a terrible wish. That’s a lovely wish. If he were dead, he would be mine. If he were dead, I would never think of now and the last few weeks. I would remember only the lovely times. It would be all beautiful. I wish he were dead. I wish he were dead, dead, dead.

— Dorothy Parker

Please don’t let me hope, dear God. Please don’t. I.

— Dorothy Parker

She felt a cozy solidarity with the big company of the voluntary dead.

— Dorothy Parker

Well, well. Isn’t it a small world? And a peach of a world, too. A true little corker.

— Dorothy Parker
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