163 ordspråk av Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker
. . . as for helping me in the outside world, the Convent taught me only that if you spit on a pencil eraser, it will erase ink.
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"Cheque enclosed" are the two most beautiful words in the English language
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"The House Beautiful" is the play lousy
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[We look like] a road company of the Last Supper.
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A list of authors who have made themselves most beloved and therefore, most comfortable financially, shows that it is our national joy to mistake for the first-rate, the fecund rate.
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Accursed from birth they be Who seek to find monogamy Pursuing it from bed to bed I think they would be better dead
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All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me.
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And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word.
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Art is a form of catharsis
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As only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night.
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Authors and actors and artists and such - Never know nothing, and never know much
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Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone
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Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
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Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
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By the time you swear you are his, shivering and sighing, And he vows his passion is infinite and undying- Lady, make a note of this: One of you is lying
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