Dorothy Parker Quotes - Page 3

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

  Dorothy Parker

  Telephones, Hell

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• If I didn't care for fun and such,
  I'd probably amount to much.
  But I shall stay the way I am,
  Because I do not give a damn.

  Dorothy Parker

  Fun, Failure, Giving

  "Enough Rope". Book by Dorothy Parker, 1926.

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• It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.

  Dorothy Parker

  Fun, Ice, Gathering

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• You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.

  Dorothy Parker

  Deeds, Should, Can Do

  Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.256, Penguin

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• Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.

  Dorothy Parker

  Friendship, Mother, Pregnancy

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• By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this -- One of you is lying.

  Dorothy Parker

  Love, Funny, Marriage

  "Unfortunate Coincidence" l. 1 (1926)

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• [On Katharine Hepburn's stage performance:] She ran the whole gamut of emotions, from A to B.

  Dorothy Parker

  Stage Performance, Emotion, Performances

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• Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.

  Dorothy Parker

  People, Use, Homosexuality

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

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• [On hearing that Clare Boothe Luce was invariably kind to her inferiors:] And where does she find them?

  Dorothy Parker

  Doe, Hearing, Kind

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• [After she and Clare Boothe Luce met in a doorway and the latter said, 'Age before beauty':] Pearls before swine.

  Dorothy Parker

  Age, Doorways, Pearls

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• Daily dawns another day; I must up, to make my way. Though I dress and drink and eat, Move my fingers and my feet, Learn a little, here and there, Weep and laugh and sweat and swear, Hear a song, or watch a stage, Leave some words upon a page, Claim a foe, or hail a friend- Bed awaits me at the end.

  Dorothy Parker

  Song, Moving, Sweat

  Dorothy Parker (1944). “Dorothy Parker”

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• A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.

  Dorothy Parker

  Fighting, Men, Politics

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• Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.

  Dorothy Parker

  Cities, Two, Los Angeles

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• I'd like to have money. And I'd like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that's too adorable, I'd rather have money.

  Dorothy Parker

  Two, Adorable, Together

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

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• The writer's way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?

  Dorothy Parker

  Lonely, Way, Vacancy

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• Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!

  Dorothy Parker

  God, Stupidity, Happened

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• Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.

  Dorothy Parker

  Women, Irritation, Pity

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• I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.

  Dorothy Parker

  Happy Endings, Shock, Billions

  Dorothy Parker, Stuart Y. Silverstein (2009). “Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

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• I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me. I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do anything. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.

  Dorothy Parker

  Names, Nails, Fame

  Here Lies (1939) "The Little Hours"

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• 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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• The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.

  Dorothy Parker

  Education, School, Ink

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• [On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that's much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.

  Dorothy Parker

  Real, Agents, Few Friends

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• Now, look, baby, 'Union' is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.

  Dorothy Parker

  Baby, Looks, Four

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• I don't mind anything that's written about me, as long as it's not true.

  Dorothy Parker

  Long, Mind, Written

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