Eternity is a ham and two people. Dorothy Parker More Quotes by Dorothy Parker More Quotes From Dorothy Parker I don't want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading. Dorothy Parker cutting reading book Men don't like nobility in woman. Not any men. I suppose it is because the men like to have the copyrights on nobility -- if there is going to be anything like that in a relationship. Dorothy Parker copyright he-man men I had been fed, in my youth, a lot of old wives' tales about the way men would instantly forsake a beautiful woman to flock around a brilliant one. It is but fair to say that, after getting out in the world, I had never seen this happen." [From a column dated November 17, 1928] Dorothy Parker wife beautiful men Hollywood is the one place on earth where you could die of encouragement. Dorothy Parker hollywood encouragement earth His books are exciting and powerful and — if I may filch the word from the booksy ones — pulsing. Dorothy Parker powerful may book Because your eyes are slant and slow, Because your hair is sweet to touch, My heart is high again; but oh, I doubt if this will get me much. Dorothy Parker eye heart sweet Go to the Martin Beck Theatre and watch Katherine Hepburn run the gamut of emotions from A to B. Dorothy Parker theatre running watches If I should labor through daylight and dark, Consecrate, valorous, serious, true, Then on the world I may blazon my mark; And what if I don't, and what if I do? Dorothy Parker what-if dark world On being told of the death of former President Calvin Coolidge: How could they tell? Dorothy Parker former president death 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 imagine how I did it. When I got away from it I couldn't even refer to the place by name. ''Out there,'' I called it. Dorothy Parker hollywood names looks Men They hail you as their morning star Because you are the way you are. If you return the sentiment, They'll try to make you different; And once they have you, safe and sound, They want to change you all around. Your moods and ways they put a curse on; They'd make of you another person. They cannot let you go your gait; They influence and educate. They'd alter all that they admired. They make me sick, they make me tired. Dorothy Parker tired stars morning [To woman bragging about having kept her husband for seven years:] Don't worry, if you keep him long enough, he'll come back in style. Dorothy Parker husband long years I wanted to be cute. That's the terrible thing. I should have had more sense. Dorothy Parker terrible should-have cute Accursed from their birth they be Who seek to find monogamy, Pursuing it from bed to bed— I think they would be better dead. Dorothy Parker bed would-be thinking She will never win him, whose words had shown she feared to lose. Dorothy Parker dating loses winning Sure, you make money writing on the coast ... but that money is like so much compressed snow. It goes so fast it melts in your hand. Dorothy Parker writing snow hands [Completely bored by a country weekend, wiring to a friend:] For heaven's sake, rush me a loaf of bread, enclosing saw and file. Dorothy Parker weekend bored country Why is it no one sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect rose. Dorothy Parker luck perfect rose There was a reason for the cost of those perfectly plain black dresses. Dorothy Parker cost black dresses Just begin a story with such a phrase as 'I remember Disraeli - poor old Dizz! - once saying to me, in answer to my poke in the eye,' and you will find me and Morpheus off in a corner, necking. Dorothy Parker phrases eye stories
