Best Dorothy Parker Thoughts
- Be you wise and never sad, You will get your lovely lad. Never serious be, nor true, And your wish will come to you-- And… Firsts
- Now, look, baby, 'Union' is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word. Baby
- All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends. All
- Oh, both my shoes are shiny new, And pristine is my hat My dress is 1922… My life is all like that. All
- Lady, lady, never start Conversation toward your heart; Keep your pretty words serene; Never murmur what you mean. Show yourself, by word and look, Swift… April
- There was a reason for the cost of those perfectly plain black dresses. Black
- Pictures pass me in long review,-- Marching columns of dead events. I was tender, and, often, true; Ever a prey to coincidence. Always knew I… Always Knew
- When I was young and bold and strong, The right was right, the wrong was wrong. With plume on high and flag unfurled, I rode… Bad
- Ah, clear they see and true they say That one shall weep, and one shall stray Ah
- 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.… Admire
- If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you. Kick Ass
- Some men break your heart in two, Some men fawn and flatter, Some men never look at you; And that cleans up the matter. Break
- The plot is so tired that even this reviewer, who in infancy was let drop by a nurse with the result that she has ever… Able
- His books are exciting and powerful and — if I may filch the word from the booksy ones — pulsing. Book
- There are times when images blow to fluff, and comparisons stiffen and shrivel. Blow
- But I don't give up; I forget why not. Forget
- The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters. The boys have gone hog-wild with liberty, yet… Add
- Like many a better one before me, I have gone down under the force of numbers, under the books and books and books that keep… Better
- 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.… Analogies
- 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. Believe
- I regret to say that during the first act of this, I fell so soundly asleep that the gentleman who brought me piled up a… Act
- I find her anecdotes more efficacious than sheep-counting, rain on a tin roof, or alanol tablets.... you will find me and Morpheus, off in a… Anecdotes
- I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a great work. But… Author
- 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. Apologizing
- I wish, I wish I were a poisonous bacterium. Bacteria
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