Dorothy Parker

Books by Dorothy Parker

The portable Dorothy Parker
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Great Short Stories of the World
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The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition
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Quotes by Dorothy Parker

She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go.
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Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life.
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Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studdedwheelchair.
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Why, that dog is practically a Phi Beta Kappa. She can sit up and beg, and she can give her paw -- I don't say she will but she can.
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God, the bitter misery that reading works into this world! Everybody knows that - everbody who IS everybody. All the best minds have been off reading for years. Look at the swing La Rouchefoucauld took at it. He said that if nobody had ever learned to read, very few people would be in love. Good for you, La Rouchefoucauld; nice going, boy. I wish I'd never learned to read.
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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it.
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I find her anecdotes more efficacious than sheep-counting, rain on a tin roof, or alanol tablets.... you will find me and Morpheus, off in a corner, necking.
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Now to me, Edith looks like something that would eat her young.
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.
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Prince or commoner, tenor or bass,Painter or plumber or never-do-well,Do me a favor and shut your face -Poets alone should kiss and tell.
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I don't know, she said. We used to squabble a lot when we were going together and then engaged and everything, but I thought everything would be so different as soon as you were married. And now I feel so sort of strange and everything. I feel so sort of alone.
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You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.
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Hold your pen and spare your voice.
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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.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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Little WordsWhen you are gone, there is nor bloom nor leaf,Nor singing sea at night, nor silver birds;And I can only stare, and shape my griefIn little words.I cannot conjure loveliness, to drownThe bitter woe that racks my cords apart.The weary pen that sets my sorrow downFeeds at my heart.There is no mercy in the shifting year,No beauty wraps me tenderly about.I turn to little words- so you, my dear,Can spell them out.
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It costs me never a stab nor squirm / To tread by chance upon a worm. / Aha, my little dear, / I say, Your clan will pay me back one day.
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