Challenged to use the word "horticulture" in a sentence: "You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think." #DorothyParker #Parker

Time doth flit, Oh shit! #DorothyParker #Parker

Horsie All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as it it were all right. You don't catch horses going around looking like people, do you?" #DorothyParker #Parker

Isn't it a bit presumptuous of us to be alive now that Mr. Benchley is dead? #DorothyParker #Parker

Colliding with Clare Booth Luce in a doorway: CBL: "Age before beauty." DP (stepping aside): "Pearls before swine." #DorothyParker #Parker

I was the toast of two contintents : Greenland and Australia. #DorothyParker #Parker

On hearing the door bell or telephone ringing: "What fresh hell is this?" #DorothyParker #Parker

Paying her last respects to Scott Fitzgerald as eh lay in an undertaker's parlor in Los Angeles, and quoting the words of a mourner at the funer of Jay Gatsby: "The poor son-of-a-bitch!" #DorothyParker #Parker

Telegram to an actress who finally had her baby after many carefully contrived appearances during her long pregnancy: "GOOD WORK. WE ALL KNEW YOU HAD IT IN YOU." #DorothyParker #Parker

Time doth flit, Oh shit! #DorothyParker #Parker