Dorothy Parker Quotes

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

Love is what we aspire to most in our lives.

I've been through heartbreak and uncertainty and giddy crushes and everything. We all have.

I have realised that life is never perfect.

All our failures are ultimately failures in love.

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.

I don't think any of my books tell the reader anything new. But they do remind, in a time that is strident and screeching about the limitations of this world and all the trouble we can get ourselves into.

Happiness should always remain a bit incomplete. After all, dreams are boundless.

Knowledge makes one laugh, but wealth makes one dance.

When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.

A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day.

One day I would be a better hand at the game. One day I would learn how to laugh. Pablo was waiting for me, and Mozart too.

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

But if one's dreams having to come true was the only referendum on whether they were beautiful, or worth dreaming, well then, no one would wish for anything. And that would be so much sadder.

People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something, always, in a word, seeking. But the wise wake up. They choose reason over custom. They fix their minds on the sublime and let their bodies change with the seasons.

So one time when I was working in this motel one of the toilets leaked and I had to replace the flapper ball. Here's what it said on the package; I kept it till I knew it by heart: 'Please Note. Parts are included for all installations, but no installation requires all of the parts.' That's kind of my philosophy about men. I don't think there's an installation out there that could use all my parts.

She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.

If you were a star you'd be the one I'm searching for

If a mind is just a few pounds of blood, urea, and electricity, how does it manage to contemplate itself, worry about its soul, do time-and-motion studies, admire the shy hooves of a goat, know that it will die, enjoy all the grand and lesser mayhems of the heart ?

The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars.

Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize... Vienna waits for you.

At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope

The biggest laughs are based on the biggest disappointments and the biggest fears.

Love, desire, ambition, faith - without them, life's so simple, believe me.