Dorothy Parker Quotes

• Four be the things I’d been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.

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• Why is it no one ever sent me yet One perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it’s always just my luck to get One perfect rose.

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• Whose love is given over-well Shall look on Helen’s face in hell Whilst they whose love is thin and wise Shall see John Knox in Paradise.

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• And there was that wholesale libel on a Yale prom. If all the girls attending it were laid end to end, Mrs Parker said, she wouldn’t be at all surprised.

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• That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say No in any of them.

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• Katharine Hepburn runs the gamut of the emotions from A to B.

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• House Beautiful is play lousy.

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• Now that you’ve got me right down to it, the only thing I didn’t like about The Barretts of Wimpole Street was the play.

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• More glutton than artist…he commences to chew up the scenery.

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• And it is that word ‘hummy’, my darlings, that marks the first place in ‘The House at Pooh Corner’ at which Tonstant Weader fwowed up.

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• If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all assume that Oscar said it.

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• The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature.

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• Where’s the man could ease a heart Like a satin gown?

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• Lady, lady, should you meet One whose ways are all discreet, One who murmurs that his wife Is the lodestar of his life, One who keeps assuring you That he never was untrue, Never loved another one… Lady, lady, better run!

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• Brevity is the soul of lingerie, as the Petticoat said to the Chemise.

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• They sicken of the calm who know the storm.

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• Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.

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• Now to me, Edith looks like something that would eat her young.

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  Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.

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

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Dorothy Parker (53)

Birth:	22nd August, 1893
Death:	7th June, 1967
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Poet, Satirist, Writer

About

Dorothy Parker was born in Long Branch, New Jersey. She was an American poet, writer, and satirist, best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles. She sold her first poem to Vanity Fair magazine in 1914. She published her first volume of poetry, Enough Rope, in 1926. Her best-known short story, "Big Blonde", published in The Bookman magazine, was awarded the O. Henry Award as the best short story of 1929.

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