And if my heart be scarred and burned, the safer, I for…

And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.

— Dorothy Parker

“I kiss your heart because those before me have scarred it.”

— Kevin Fuller

“I look down at my hands. They are what Dancer called them - cut, scarred, burned things. When Eo kissed them, they grew gentle…

— Pierce Brown

“II Hollywood Flapper Oh, come my love and join with me The oldest infant industry. Come seek the bourne of palm and pearl, The…

— David Stenn

“Upon hearing that Coolidge was dead, the writer Dorothy Parker cracked, “How can you tell?”

— Brady Carlson

Whether it's Dorothy Parker or Oscar Wilde, they're brilliant with genius bon mots. Of course, I find them extraordinary.

— Duncan Roy

“I am a writer who does not enjoy writing. I can find innumerable ways to avoid it. But, to rip off Dorothy Parker, nothing…

— Adrienne Martini

For throughout history, you can read the stories of women who - against all the odds - got being a woman right, but ended…

— Caitlin Moran

...Mr. Wodehouse is a prose stylist of such startling talent that Frankie nearly skipped around with glee when she first read some of his…

— E. Lockhart

“Show a girl a pioneering hero—Sylvia Plath, Dorothy Parker, Frida Kahlo, Cleopatra, Boudicca, Joan of Arc—and you also, more often than not, show a…

— Caitlin Moran

“Dorothy Parker on Ayn Rand: “Atlas Shrugged is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.”

— Bathroom Readers' Institute

“One of the greatest was the blonde, urbane Ina Claire, who seemed a Dorothy Parker story or New Yorker cartoon come to life.”

— Eve Golden

If Robert Benchley and Dorothy Parker had teamed up to write epic fantasy, something like Split Heirs might have resulted.

— John DeChancie

Phoebe Wolkind Ephron cracked wise like Dorothy Parker and looked like Katharine Hepburn.

— Hallie Ephron

“You know what Dorothy Parker said, right? You can lead a whore to culture, but you can’t make her think.”

— Stephen King