"Famous actress bragging about her husband: Look at him, isn't he beautiful I have kept him for seven years now' Dorothy Parker: Don't Worry--he'll come back in style'"

"The only 'ism' hollywood believes in is plagiarism."

"I'm never going to be famous. I don't do anything, not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more."

"You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think."

"I really can't come to your party Mrs. Parker, I can't bear fools.' That's strange; your mother could."

"Trapped, like a trap in a trap."

"Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it."

"He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god."

"It's not the will to win that matters...everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters."

"A family is a family not because of gender but because of values, like commitment, trust and love."

"Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance."

"Prejudice is ignorance."