Dorothy Parker - Three Quotes

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There is one thing about Fiddlers Three, though, that held my attention all through the evening: Try as I might I could only discern two fiddlers.

Dorothy Parker

I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.

Dorothy Parker

You can always tell that the crash is coming when I start getting tender about Our Dumb Friends. Three highballs and I think I'm St Francis of Assisi.

Dorothy Parker

And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word.

Dorothy Parker

The ladies men admire, I've heard, Would shudder at a wicked word. Their candle gives a single light, They'd rather stay at home at night. They do not keep awake 'till three, Nor read erotic poetry. They never sanction the impure, Nor recognize an overture. They shrink from powders and from paints... So far I've had no complaints.

Dorothy Parker

Three be the things I shall never attain:
Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.

Dorothy Parker