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Dorothy Parker
All those writers...
All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same...
She had spent...
She had spent the golden time in grudging its going.
Source: The Lovely Leave, in...
I was fired...
I was fired from there, finally, for a lot of things, among them my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was...
I misremember who...
I misremember who first was cruel enough to nurture the cocktail party into life. But perhaps it would be not too...
Hollywood money isn't...
Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.
I can't talk...
I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back on. I can't...
Lips that taste...
Lips that taste of tears, they say
Are the best for kissing.
Source:...
Just begin a...
Just begin a story with such a phrase as 'I remember Disraeli - poor old Dizz! - once saying to me, in answer to my...
If you're going...
If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the fact that...
I'd like to...
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...
My verses, I...
My verses, I cannot say poems. . . . I was following in the exquisite footsteps of Miss Millay, unhappily in my own...
There is entirely...
There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
Men don't like...
Men don't like nobility in woman. Not any men. I suppose it is because the men like to have the copyrights on nobility...
It's not the...
It's not the tragedies that kill us, it's the messes.
Source: In Interview in...
By the time...
By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing,
And he vows his passion is
Infinite, undying...
He has a...
He has a capacity for enjoyment so vast that he gives away great chunks to those about him, and never even misses...
There's a helluva...
There's a helluva distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with...
Art is a...
Art is a form of catharsis.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith...
Excuse me, everybody,...
Excuse me, everybody, I have to go to the bathroom. I really have to telephone, but I'm too embarrassed to say...
This play John...
This play John Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln holds the season's record, thus far, with a run of four evening...