Latest posts tagged with #parker on Bluesky
Social Note
Lady, lady, should you meet
One whose ways are all discreet,
One who murmurs that his wife
Is the lodestar of his life,
One who keeps assuring you
That he never was untrue,
Never loved another one...
Lady, lady, better run.
#DorothyParker #Parker
On being told that someone wouldn't hurt a fly:
"Not if it was buttoned up."
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Of her supersophisticated New York days:
We were gallant, hardriding and careless of life. We were little black eyes that had gone astray... A sort of Ladies' Auxiliary of the Legion of the Damned.
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Of a performance by Katherine Hepburn:
"She ran the whole gamut of emotions, from A to B."
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After a quarrel with John McClain, one of her handsomer young lovers:
"Yes, his body went to his head."
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Superfluous Advice
Should they whisper false of you,
Never trouble to deny;
Should the words they say be true,
Weep and strom and swear they lie.
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Colliding with Clare Booth Luce in a doorway:
CBL: "Age before beauty."
DP (stepping aside): "Pearls before swine."
#DorothyParker #Parker
Comment
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 Roumania.
#DorothyParker #Parker
On writing for films:
"I don't believe the films have anything to do with writing except in a crossword puzzle kind of way. Writing a script is drawing together a lot of ends which can be worked into a moving picture."
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Of a Hollywood neighbour who had had his portrait painted in the nude with outsize genitals:
"It's so real, you almost feel he could speak to you, don't you?"
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I was the toast of two contintents : Greenland and Australia.
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Her locks had been so frequently and so drastically brightened and curled that to caress them, one felt, would be rather like running one's fingers through julienne potatoes.
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To a friend who asked her if she liked her hair:
"Lovely. I can't wait for mine to go gray so I can have it made blue."
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Of a Hollywood neighbour who had had his portrait painted in the nude with outsize genitals:
"It's so real, you almost feel he could speak to you, don't you?"
#DorothyParker #Parker
After a quarrel with John McClain, one of her handsomer young lovers:
"Yes, his body went to his head."
#DorothyParker #Parker
On being told that someone wouldn't hurt a fly:
"Not if it was buttoned up."
#DorothyParker #Parker
Horsie
All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as it it were all right.
You don't catch horses going around looking like people, do you?"
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To the suggestion that she might start on her autobiography:
I'd never be able to do it, but I wish to God I could! I'd like to write the damned thing, just so I could call it Mongrel!"
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Of the slow pace of work in Hollywood;
"Unless someone comes near my office, I'm going to write MEN on the door."
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Of a play by Channing Pollock:
"The House Beautiful" is The Play Lousy.
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After a quarrel with John McClain, one of her handsomer young lovers:
"Yes, his body went to his head."
#DorothyParker #Parker
Bonne Bouche was all that Mrs Hazelton could ask of a pet. She was tiny, she was noiseless, and she had a real talent for sleeping. Mrs Hazelton loved her truly.
#DorothyParker #Parker
Of a Hollywood neighbour who had had his portrait painted in the nude with outsize genitals:
"It's so real, you almost feel he could speak to you, don't you?"
#DorothyParker #Parker
People ought to be one of two things, young or old. No - what's the use of fooling? People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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News Item
Men seldom make passes
At girls who wear glasses.
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When asked by a woman sitting next to her at a first night, "Are you Dorothy Parker?"
"Yes, do you mind?"
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Name for a pet parrot:
"Onan" (because he spilled his seed on the bottom of his cage.)
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Promise me that my gravestone will carry only these words:
"If you can read this, you've come too close."
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Mortal Enemy
Let another cross his way
She's the one will do the weeping!
Little need I fear he'll stray
Since I have his heart in keeping.
Let another hail him dear -
Little chance that he'll forget me!
Only need I curse and fear
Her he loved before he met me.
#DorothyParker #Parker
To someone who congratulated her with the words "What are you complaining about? You're married to a charming, handsome man who adores you. What more do you want?" :
"Presents."
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