"Famous actress bragging about her husband: Look at him, isn't he beautiful I have kept him for seven years now' Dorothy Parker: Don't Worry--he'll come back in style'"

"My land is bare of chattering folk; the clouds are low along the ridges, and sweet's the air with curly smoke from all my burning bridges."

"I really can't come to your party Mrs. Parker, I can't bear fools.' That's strange; your mother could."

"I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true."

"A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika."

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."

"Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak."

"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."

"The will to believe is perhaps the most powerful, but certainly the most dangerous human attribute."

"Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty."

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."

"Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."