Quotes by Dorothy Parker

Hell be cross if he sees I have been crying. They dont like you to cry. He doesnt cry. I wish to God I could make him cry. I wish I could make him cry and tread the floor and feel his heart heavy and big and festering in him. I wish I could hurt him like hell.He doesnt wish that about me. I dont think he even knows how he makes me feel. I wish he could know, without my telling him. They dont like you to tell them theyve made you cry. They dont like you to tell them youre unhappy because of them. If you do, they think youre possessive and exacting. And then they hate you. They hate you whenever you say anything you really think. You always have to keep playing little games. Oh, I thought we didnt have to; I thought this was so big I could say whatever I meant. I guess you cant, ever. I guess there isnt ever anything big enough for that.

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

Some men break your heart in two,Some men fawn and flatter,Some men never look at you;And that cleans up the matter.

If wild my breast and sore my pride,I bask in dreams of suicide,If cool my heart and high my headI think How lucky are the dead.

I never see that prettiest thing-A cherry bough gone white with Spring-But what I think, How gay twould beTo hang me from a flowering tree.

This level reach of blue is not my sea; Here are sweet waters, pretty in the sun,Whose quiet ripples meet obediently A marked and measured line, one after one. This is no sea of mine. that humbly laves Untroubled sands, spread glittering and warm. I have a need of wilder, crueler waves; They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm. So let a love beat over me again, Loosing its million desperate breakers wide; Sudden and terrible to rise and wane; Roaring the heavens apart; a reckless tide That casts upon the heart, as it recedes, Splinters and spars and dripping, salty weeds.

A Very Short Song Once, when I was young and true, Someone left me sad- Broke my brittle heart in two; And that is very bad. Love is for unlucky folk, Love is but a curse. Once there was a heart I broke; And that, I think, is worse.

London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it.

Then she told herself to stop her nonsense. If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them, more easily each time, so easily, soon, that you did not even realize you had gone out searching.

tomorrows gone-well have tonight!

Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, youll live through the night.

You think Youre frightening me with Your hell, dont You? You think Your hell is worse than mine.

She realizes she doesnt know as much as God but feels she knows as much as God knew when he was her age.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,a medley of extemporanea,And love is a thing that can never go wrong,and I am Marie of Romania.

Eternity is a ham and two people” (also given as “Eternity is two people and a ham) is an old quip from the days when a ham was huge—far more than two people could finish. Irma Rombauer mentions this line in her famous cookbook, The Joy of Cooking.

If I didnt care for fun and such,Id probably amount to much.But I shall stay the way I am,Because I do not give a damn.

One more drink and Id have been under the host.

They sicken of the calm that know the storm.

They sicken of calm who know the storm.

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