Big Books of 2026

Ciaochowbella > Ciaochowbella's Quotes

Showing 1-30 of 2,332
« previous 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 … 77 78
sort by

    like
  • #1
    Dorothy Parker
    “Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: friendship
    529 likes

    • like
  • #2
    Dorothy Parker
    “Résumé
    Razors pain you,
    Rivers are damp,
    Acids stain you,
    And drugs cause cramp.
    Guns aren't lawful,
    Nooses give,
    Gas smells awful.
    You might as well live.”
    ― Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope
    tags: dark-humor, humor, suicide
    2226 likes

    • like
  • #3
    Dorothy Parker
    “By the time you swear you're his,
    Shivering and sighing.
    And he vows his passion is,
    Infinite, undying.
    Lady make note of this --
    One of you is lying.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: courtship, cynicism, love, lying, passion
    1954 likes

    • like
  • #4
    Dorothy Parker
    “That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: epitaph, humor, the-new-yorker
    850 likes

    • like
  • #5
    Dorothy Parker
    “Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    441 likes

    • like
  • #6
    Dorothy Parker
    “I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me. I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do anything. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.”
    ― Dorothy Parker, Here Lies: The Collected Stories of Dorothy Parker
    361 likes

    • like
  • #7
    Dorothy Parker
    “Inventory:

    "Four be the things I am wiser to know:
    Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
    Four be the things I'd been better without:
    Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.
    Three be the things I shall never attain:
    Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
    Three be the things I shall have till I die:
    Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.”
    ― Dorothy Parker, The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker
    tags: champagne, contentment, curiosity, doubt, envy, foes, friends, hope, idleness, inventory, knowledge, laughter, life, love, sorrow, sufficienty, superfluity, unattainable, values, wisdom
    1173 likes

    • like
  • #8
    Dorothy Parker
    “Brevity is the soul of lingerie.”
    ― Dorothy Parker, While Rome Burns
    711 likes

    • like
  • #9
    Dorothy Parker
    “Tell him I was too fucking busy-- or vice versa.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: wordplay
    1258 likes

    • like
  • #10
    Dorothy Parker
    “Symptom Recital

    I do not like my state of mind;
    I'm bitter, querulous, unkind.
    I hate my legs, I hate my hands,
    I do not yearn for lovelier lands.
    I dread the dawn's recurrent light;
    I hate to go to bed at night.
    I snoot at simple, earnest folk.
    I cannot take the gentlest joke.
    I find no peace in paint or type.
    My world is but a lot of tripe.
    I'm disillusioned, empty-breasted.
    For what I think, I'd be arrested.
    I am not sick, I am not well.
    My quondam dreams are shot to hell.
    My soul is crushed, my spirit sore;
    I do not like me any more.
    I cavil, quarrel, grumble, grouse.
    I ponder on the narrow house.
    I shudder at the thought of men....
    I'm due to fall in love again.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    421 likes

    • like
  • #11
    Dorothy Parker
    “So, you're the man who can't spell 'fuck.'"
    Dorothy Parker to Norman Mailer after publishers had convinced Mailer to replace the word with a euphemism, 'fug,' in his 1948 book, "The Naked and the Dead.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: bad-reviews
    267 likes

    • like
  • #12
    Dorothy Parker
    “This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it."

    [Women Know Everything!]”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: bad-reviews, fancy, raisins, terrible, wordplay
    744 likes

    • like
  • #13
    Dorothy Parker
    “If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    424 likes

    • like
  • #14
    Dorothy Parker
    “All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends. ”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    104 likes

    • like
  • #15
    Dorothy Parker
    “I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    283 likes

    • like
  • #16
    Dorothy Parker
    “I wish, I wish I were a poisonous bacterium.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    75 likes

    • like
  • #17
    Dorothy Parker
    “It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    91 likes

    • like
  • #18
    Dorothy Parker
    “Tonstant Weader fwowed up.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    13 likes

    • like
  • #19
    “This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.”
    ― Sid Ziff
    tags: bad-reviews, book, humorist, misattributed-dorothy-parker, wit
    1613 likes

    • like
  • #20
    Dorothy Parker
    “Accursed from their birth they be
    Who seek to find monogamy,
    Pursuing it from bed to bed—
    I think they would be better dead.”
    ― Dorothy Parker, Sunset Gun: Poems
    25 likes

    • like
  • #21
    Dorothy Parker
    “You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.”
    ― Dorothy Parker, The Algonquin Wits
    tags: attributed-no-source
    183 likes

    • like
  • #22
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle
    tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing
    16947 likes

    • like
  • #23
    Albert Einstein
    “If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, simplicity, understand
    31241 likes

    • like
  • #24
    Nicolas Chamfort
    “A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
    ― Nicolas Chamfort
    tags: philosophy
    14974 likes

    • like
  • #25
    Shel Silverstein
    “Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
    ― Shel Silverstein
    tags: anything-can-be, hope, impossible, inspirational, musn-t, possibilities, shouldn-t, won-t
    22592 likes

    • like
  • #26
    Anaïs Nin
    “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: death, love
    22140 likes

    • like
  • #27
    Oscar Wilde
    “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
    21522 likes

    • like
  • #28
    “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
    ― Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married
    tags: happiness, misattributed-john-lennon, procrastination, time
    21003 likes

    • like
  • #29
    Marilyn Monroe
    “A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source
    19276 likes

    • like
  • #30
    “There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
    ― Linda Grayson
    tags: chocolate, friendship
    16489 likes



Rss
« previous 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 … 77 78
All Quotes



Tags From Ciaochowbella’s Quotes

friendship
dark-humor
humor
suicide
courtship
cynicism
love
lying
passion
epitaph
the-new-yorker
champagne
contentment
curiosity
doubt
envy
foes
friends
hope
idleness
inventory
knowledge
laughter
life
sorrow
sufficienty
superfluity
unattainable
values
wisdom
wordplay
bad-reviews
fancy
raisins
terrible
book
humorist
misattributed-dorothy-parker
wit
attributed-no-source
books
children
difficult
grown-ups
write
writers
writing
simplicity
understand
philosophy
anything-can-be
impossible
inspirational
musn-t
possibilities
shouldn-t
won-t
death
reading
happiness
misattributed-john-lennon
procrastination
time
chocolate