Dorothy Parker Quotes - Page 5

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• There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.

  Dorothy Parker

  Best Years Of Your Life, Syntax, Study

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• A girl's best friend is her mutter.

  Dorothy Parker

  Girl

  Dorothy Parker, Stuart Y. Silverstein (2009). “Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.

  Dorothy Parker

  Women, Memorable, Voice

  Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.143, Penguin

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• The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.

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  Two, People, Funny Marriage

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• Newton's Fourth Law: Every action has an equal and opposite satisfaction.

  Dorothy Parker

  God, Law, Opposites

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• Once I was coming down a street in Beverly Hills and I saw a Cadillac about a block long, and out of the side window was a wonderfully slinky mink, and an arm, and at the end of the arm a hand in a white suede glove wrinkled around the wrist, and in the hand was a bagel with a bite out of it.

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  Block, Hands, White

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

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• Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, a medley of extemporanea, And love is a thing that can never go wrong, and I am Marie of Romania.

  Dorothy Parker

  Love, Life, Song

  "Comment" l. 1 (1926)

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• They tire of quiet, that have known the storm

  Dorothy Parker

  Storm, Quiet, Tire

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• The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters. ... Obscenity is too valuable a commodity to chuck around all over the place; it should be taken out of the safe on special occasions only.

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  Beautiful, Taken, Thinking

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• If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised.

  Dorothy Parker

  Girl, Yale, Prom

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• My own dear love, he is strong and bold And he cares not what comes after. His words ring sweet as a chime of gold, And his eyes are lit with laughter. He is jubilant as a flag unfurled - Oh, a girl, she'd not forget him. My own dear love, he is all my world - And I wish I'd never met him.

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  Girl, Sweet, Strong

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

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• Friends come and go but I wouldn't have thought you'd be one of them

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  Friends Come And Go, Comes And Goes

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• Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.

  Dorothy Parker

  Doctors, Bravery, Said

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• 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 barricade of overcoat, hat, stick, and gloves between us to establish a separation in the eyes of the world, and went into an impersonation of A Young Man Who Has Come to the Theater Unaccompanied.

  Dorothy Parker

  Regret, Eye, Men

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• I can’t write five words but that I change seven.

  Dorothy Parker

  Writing, Revision, Seven

  Dorothy Parker, Stuart Y. Silverstein (2009). “Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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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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• A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.

  Dorothy Parker

  Fashion, Nice, Inspiration

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• Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.

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  Friendship, Use, Fabric

  Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.259, Penguin

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

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  Heart, Kick Ass, Burned

  Dorothy Parker (1944). “Dorothy Parker”

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• 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?

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  Art, Humorous, Struggle

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

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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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• All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.

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  Home, House, Needs

  Dorothy Parker, Stuart Y. Silverstein (2009). “Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.

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  Flower, Years, Rose

  Dorothy Parker (1944). “Dorothy Parker”

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

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  Done, Too Much, December

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

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  Two, People, Young

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

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