Dorothy Rothschild Parker
Dorothy Rothschild Parker
Dorothy Parkerwas an American poet, short story writer, critic, and satirist, best known for her wit, wisecracks and eye for 20th-century urban foibles...
good hidden looks nobody safe treasures women
Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
good hope rather
I'd like to have money. And I'd like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that's too adorable, I'd rather have money.
days floor looking poor rolling sucker three
And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word.
body salary soul
Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart.
exceed man people
People Who Do things, exceed my endurance;/ God, for a man that solicits insurance!
dress love
Every love's the love before in a duller dress
constant fabric ragged wear
Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship.
great lightly novel
This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.
eight languages speaks woman
That woman speaks eight languages and can't say no in any of them.
best lips taste
Lips that taste of tears, they say/ Are the best for kissing.
against bolts cold door lives mind noise
Her mind lives tidily, apart/ From cold and noise and pain,/ And bolts the door against her heart,/ Out wailing in the rain.
four wiser
Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
attended game girls laid surprised
If all the girls who attended the Harvard-Yale game were laid end to end, I wouldn't be surprised
girls laid surprised
If all the girls at Brandeis were laid end-to-end, I wouldn't be surprised