More quotes by Dorothy Parker

"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 require three things in a man: he must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid."
"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]"
"Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt."
"Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both."