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1893–1967 United States
Dorothy Parker (August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) was an American writer, poet, and critic. A fixture of 1920s literary society known for her acerbic wit and low opinion of romantic relationships, she became a member of the Algonquin Round Table.
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There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.
I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things.
Men seldom make passes
Enough Rope (1926)
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say No in any of them.
Our Mrs Parker (1934)
Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart.
And it is that word 'hummy,' my darlings, that marks the first place in The House at Pooh Corner at which Tonstant Weader fwowed up.
Katharine Hepburn delivered a striking performance that ran the gamut of emotions, from A to B.
Our Mrs Parker (1934)
Brevity is the soul of lingerie, as the Petticoat said to the Chemise.
Vogue (1916)
And I'll stay away from Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard.
Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
Our Mrs Parker (1934)
There is no such hour on the present clock as 6:30, New York time. Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night.
You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.
It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes.
One more drink and I'd have been under the host.
Try and Stop Me by Bennett Cerf (1944)
The House Beautiful is, for me, the play lousy.
I hate almost all rich people, but I think I'd be darling at it.
Yet this the need of woman, this her curse:
They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.
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