Humor Quote by Dorothy Parker — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

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

“The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.”

“In youth, it was a way I had,”

“I like to have a martini,”

“It costs me never a stab nor squirm / To tread by chance upon a worm. / Aha, my little dear, / I say, Your clan will pay me back one day.”

“That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.”

“Percy says be talked to a Nereid in Charleston Harbor!”

“People can do great things. However, there are some things they just CAN'T do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort.”

“Usually my form of turning someone down was shoving a stake through his heart while smirking, Gotcha!”

“Don't Panic.”

“Etiquette tip: If you're looking for the right time to leave a party, when the host yells, "No one leaves here alive," that's your cue.”

“Speak softly and employ a huge man with a crowbar.”