And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on hi... - Dorothy Parker
"And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word."
More quotes by Dorothy Parker
"Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone."
"If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy."
"If I had a shiny gun I could have a world of fun Speeding bullets through the brains Of the folks that cause me pains :)"
"I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it."
"There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words."[Interview, The Paris Review, Summer 1956]"