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It is advertised as “a seagoin’ comedy,” and anytime they go leaving off the final g that way, you know what to expect. p. 324
Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918–1923 (2014)
The play holds the season's record, thus far, with a run of four evening performances and one matinée. By an odd coincidence, it ran just five performances too many. p. 121
Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918–1923 (2014)
There is one thing about Fiddlers Three, though, that held my attention all through the evening: Try as I might I could only discern two fiddlers. p. 42
Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918–1923 (2014)
This use of soldiers to make a play popular seems too much like taking an unfair advantage of the uniform—hitting below the Sam Browne belt, as it were. p. 93
Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918–1923 (2014)
Almost overnight, Dorothy Parker was transformed from a woman of letters into a gin-soaked quote machine, with a martini in one hand and a dagger in the other. p. xiii
Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918–1923 (2014)
To quote the only line of Gertrude Stein's which I have ever been able to understand, "It is wonderful how I am not interested." p. 64
Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918–1923 (2014)
If you want to know what the Lord God thinks of money, just look at those to whom he gives it.
Misattributed Man and the Gospel (1891)
You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.
Misattributed
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
Misattributed The Algonquin Wits (1968)
I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I'm under the table,
After four I'm under my host.
Misattributed
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
Attributed
72 suburbs in search of a city
Misattributed
"Age Before Beauty." "Pearls Before Swine."
Attributed
Upon my honor
I saw a Madonna
Standing in a niche
Over the door
Of the glamorous whore
Of a prominent son of a bitch.
Misattributed
How odd
Of God
To choose
The Jews
Misattributed