Dorothy Parker Quotes About Hell

Quotes about: Hell

• I won't telephone him. I'll never telephone him again as long as I live. He'll rot in hell, before I'll call him up. You don't have to give me strength, God; I have it myself. If he wanted me, he could get me. He knows where I am. He knows I'm waiting here. He's so sure of me, so sure. I wonder why they hate you, as soon as they are sure of you.

  Dorothy Parker

  Relationship, Hate, Giving

  Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.80, Penguin

• There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

  Dorothy Parker

  Funny, Women, Distance

  Quoted in Paris Review, Summer 1956

• [On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?

  Dorothy Parker

  Telephones, Hell

• Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!

  Dorothy Parker

  Love You, Kick Ass, Hell

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

• There's little in taking or giving, There's little in water or wine: This living, this living, this living, Was never a project of mine. Oh, hard is the struggle, and sparse is The gain of the one at the top, For art is a form of catharsis, And love is a permanent flop, And work is the province of cattle, And rest's for a clam in a shell, So I'm thinking of throwing the battle - Would you kindly direct me to hell?

  Dorothy Parker

  Art, Humorous, Struggle

  Dorothy Parker (1936). “Collected poems: Not so deep as a well”

• Hell's afloat in lover's tears.

  Dorothy Parker

  Love, Break Up, Broken Heart

  Dorothy Parker (1944). “Dorothy Parker”

• I don't want to be classed as a humorist. It makes me feel guilty. I've never read a good tough quotable female humorist, and I never was one myself. I couldn't do it. A "smartcracker" they called me, and that makes me sick and unhappy. There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

  Dorothy Parker

  Distance, Sick, Unhappy

  Quoted in Paris Review, Summer 1956

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