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Dorothy Parker
I might repeat...
I might repeat to myself . . . a list of quotations from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn...
They sicken of...
They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.
Source: Fair Weather, Sunset Gun,...
You can't teach...
You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.
Source: In The Algonquin Wits, ed. by...
Brevity is the...
Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
Source: In Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell is...
This is not...
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
Byron and Shelley...
Byron and Shelley and Keats
Were a trio of lyrical treats.
Source: A Pig's-Eye...
Authors and actors...
Authors and actors and artists and such
Never know nothing, and never know much.
This living, this...
This living, this living, this living
Was never a project of mine.
Source:...
Misfortune, and recited...
Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, may be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and...
He lies below,...
He lies below, correct in cypress wood,
And entertains the most exclusive worms.
Scratch a lover,...
Scratch a lover, and find a foe.
Source: Ballade of a Great Weariness, Enough Rope,...
His voice was...
His voice was intimate as the rustle of sheets.
Source: Dusk before...
If, with the...
If, with the literate, I am
Impelled to try an epigram,
I never seek to take the credit;
We all assume that...
I had been...
I had been fed, in my youth, a lot of old wives' tales about the way men would instantly forsake a beautiful woman to...
Why is it...
Why is it no one ever sent me yet
One perfect limousine, do you suppose?
Ah no, it's always just my luck to...
There was nothing...
There was nothing separate about her days,
Like drops upon a window-pane, they ran
together and trickled away. ....
Her mind lives...
Her mind lives tidily, apart
From cold and noise and pain,
And bolts the door against her heart,
Out wailing...
She was always...
She was always pleased to have him come and
never sorry to see him go.
Source:...
Every love is...
Every love is the love before
In a duller dress.
Source: Death and Taxes.
--...
Then if my...
Then if my friendships break and bend,
There's little need to cry
The while I know that every foe
Is faithful...