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Dorothy Parker Quotes
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![[On an actor who’d broken her leg in London:] Oh, how terrible. She must have done it sliding down a barrister Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/807/806941/806941.webp "[On an actor who’d broken her leg in London:] Oh, how terrible. She must have done it sliding down a barrister Picture Quote #1")
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They say of me, and so they should, It’s doubtful if I come to good. I see acquaintances and friends Accumulating dividends And making enviable names In science, art and parlor games. But I, despite expert advice, Keep doing things I think are nice, And though to good I never come Inseparable my nose and thumb (Dorothy Parker Quotes)
Woman wants monogamy; Man delights in novelty. Love is woman’s moon and sun; Man has other forms of fun. Woman lives but in her lord; Count to ten, and man is bored. With this the gist and sum of it, What earthly good can come of it? (Dorothy Parker Quotes)
Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word (Dorothy Parker Quotes)
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 Quotes)
This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn’t touch a superlative again with an umbrella (Dorothy Parker Quotes)
I’m of the glamorous ladies At whose beckoning history shook. But you are a man, and see only my pan, So I stay at home with a book (Dorothy Parker Quotes)
Gertrude Stein did us the most harm when she said, ‘You’re all a lost generation.’ That got around to certain people and we all said, ‘Whee! We’re lost (Dorothy Parker Quotes)
Once, when I was young and true. Someone left me sad - Broke my brittle heart in two; And that is very bad. Love is for unlucky folk, Love is but a curse. Once there was a heart I broke; And that, I think, is worse (Dorothy Parker Quotes)
Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter’s pretty lousy, but I hate Spring (Dorothy Parker Quotes)
Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you (Dorothy Parker Quotes)
I fell into writing, I suppose, being one of those awful children who wrote verses. I went to a convent in New York-the Blessed Sacrament... I was fired from there, finally, for a lot of things, among them my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was spontaneous combustion (Dorothy Parker Quotes)
[On an actor who’d broken her leg in London:] Oh, how terrible. She must have done it sliding down a barrister (Dorothy Parker Quotes)
[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that’s much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends (Dorothy Parker Quotes)
We were all imitative. We all wandered in after Miss Edna St. Vincent Millay. We were all being dashing and gallant, declaring we weren’t virgins, whether we were or not (Dorothy Parker Quotes)
Somewhere, there, is an analogy, in a small way, if you have the patience for it. But I guess it isn’t a very good anecdote. I’m better at animal stories. (Dorothy Parker Quotes)
For a few minutes, everything is so cute that the mind reels.... And then, believe it or not, things get worse. So I shot myself. (Dorothy Parker Quotes)
The sun’s gone dim, and the moon’s gone black. For I loved him, and he didn’t love back. (Dorothy Parker Quotes)
I don’t want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading. (Dorothy Parker Quotes)
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. (Dorothy Parker Quotes)
Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.) (Dorothy Parker Quotes)
Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty (Dorothy Parker Quotes)
Sure, you make money writing on the coast ... but that money is like so much compressed snow. It goes so fast it melts in your hand. (Dorothy Parker Quotes)
Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them (Dorothy Parker Quotes)
I give her sadness and the gift of pain, a new moon madness and a love of rain (Dorothy Parker Quotes)
Why, after all, should readers never be harrowed? Surely there is enough happiness in life without having to go to books for it. (Dorothy Parker Quotes)
If wild my breast and sore my pride,I bask in dreams of suicide,If cool my heart and high my headI think ‘How lucky are the dead. (Dorothy Parker Quotes)
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity (Dorothy Parker Quotes)
Money is only congealed snow (Dorothy Parker Quotes)
He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight (Dorothy Parker Quotes)
Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them (Dorothy Parker Quotes)