Dorothy Parker Quotes - Page 6

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• If I had a shiny gun I could have a world of fun Speeding bullets through the brains Of the folks that cause me pains :)

  Dorothy Parker

  Fun, Pain, Gun

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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.

  Dorothy Parker

  Broken, Legs, London

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• There must be courage; there must be no awe. There must be criticism, for humor, to my mind, is encapsulated in criticism. There must be a disciplined eye and a wild mind...There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about it.

  Dorothy Parker

  Eye, Mind, Criticism

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• Mrs. Ewing was a short woman who accepted the obligation borne by so many short women to make up in vivacity what they lack in number of inches from the ground.

  Dorothy Parker

  Numbers, Accepted, Inches

  Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.302, Penguin

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• I was the toast of two continents: Greenland and Australia.

  Dorothy Parker

  Art, Two, Australia

  Quoted in John Keats, You Might As Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker (1970)

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• Age before beauty, and pearls before swine.

  Dorothy Parker

  Age, Pearls, Youth

  Dorothy Parker, Stuart Y. Silverstein (2009). “Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.

  Dorothy Parker

  Two, People, Young

  Quoted in The Sayings of Dorothy Parker, ed. S. T. Brownlow (1992)

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• I might repeat to myself . . . a list of quotations from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things.

  Dorothy Parker

  Profound, Mind, Might

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• Little Words When you are gone, there is nor bloom nor leaf, Nor singing sea at night, nor silver birds; And I can only stare, and shape my grief In little words. I cannot conjure loveliness, to drown The bitter woe that racks my cords apart. The weary pen that sets my sorrow down Feeds at my heart. There is no mercy in the shifting year, No beauty wraps me tenderly about. I turn to little words- so you, my dear, Can spell them out.

  Dorothy Parker

  Grief, Heart, Night

  Dorothy Parker (1936). “Not So Deep as a Well”, Macmillan Company of Canada

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• She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go.

  Dorothy Parker

  Sex, Sorry, Innuendo

  Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.110, Penguin

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• 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 the consequence; Always saw what the end would be. We're as Nature has made us -- hence I loved them until they loved me.

  Dorothy Parker

  Long, Events, Would Be

  Dorothy Parker (1936). “Not So Deep as a Well”, Macmillan Company of Canada

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• Of Orson Welles: It's like meeting God without dying.

  Dorothy Parker

  Dying, Meetings

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• There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.

  Dorothy Parker

  Done, Too Much, December

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• And I'll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.

  Dorothy Parker

  Poet, Chasing

  'Here Lies' (1939) 'The Little Hours'

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• ... if this world were anything near what it should be there would be no more need of a Book Week than there would be a of a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

  Dorothy Parker

  Children, Book, Reading

  Dorothy Parker (1970). “A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by "Constant Reader"”

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• All those writers who write about their own childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me.

  Dorothy Parker

  God, Writing, Childhood

  The Paris Review, 1956.

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• Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I'll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!

  Dorothy Parker

  Yesterday, Long, Sorrow

  Dorothy Parker (1944). “Dorothy Parker”

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• Scratch an actor and you'll find an actress.

  Dorothy Parker

  Scratches, Actors, Actresses

  Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• Hold your pen and spare your voice.

  Dorothy Parker

  Voice, Spares, Pens

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• [On being told their loquacious, domineering host was 'outspoken':] By whom?

  Dorothy Parker

  Host, Outspoken, Wit

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• All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don't catch horses going around looking like people, do you?

  Dorothy Parker

  Horse, Business, People

  Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.162, Penguin

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

  Dorothy Parker

  Fashion, Heart, Men

  "Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words".

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• [On hearing that President Coolidge was dead:] How can you tell?

  Dorothy Parker

  President, Hearing

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• Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart.

  Dorothy Parker

  Soul, Salary, Body

  New Yorker, 4 Feb. 1928

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• A list of authors who have made themselves most beloved and therefore, most comfortable financially, shows that it is our national joy to mistake for the first-rate, the fecund rate.

  Dorothy Parker

  Mistake, Joy, Firsts

  Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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