Dorothy Parker

More from Dorothy Parker

• Guns aren’t lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful. So you might as well live.

  Résumé (1926), “Resume” (1926).In context

  • Life & Death

• If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be a bit surprised.

  • Clever Jabs

• Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.

  • Love

All 22 quotes from Dorothy Parker

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

  • Success

• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

  • Philosophy