Dorothy Parker > Quotes

“Si nadie hubiera aprendido a leer, muy pocos se habrían enamorado"
"Si nadie hubiera aprendido a desnudarse, muy pocas personas estarían enamoradas”
― Dorothy Parker, The Complete Stories of Dorothy Parker

“And couldn't it be I was young and mad
If ever my heart on my sleeve I wore?
There's many to claw at a heart unclad,
And little the wonder it ripped and tore.”
― Dorothy Parker, The Best of Dorothy Parker

“Needle, needle, dip and dart, Thrusting up and down, Where’s the man could ease a heart Like a satin gown?”
― Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope

“Possibly she insists upon being called a Scottish terrier because, at the moment, Scottish terriers are high in fashion — it is queer, isn’t it that there should be fashions in dogs? Scotties are a sane style; they are, so to say, serviceable and they give good wear. They have all the compactness of a small dog and all the valor of a big one. And they are so exceedingly sturdy that it is proverbial that the only thing fatal to them is being run over by an automobile — in which case the car itself knows that it has been in a fight.”
― Dorothy Parker, Dog Tales: Classic Stories About Smart Dogs

“Es una lástima que el brillo de los ojos de una persona solo sea el brillo de los ojos de una persona, y que uno no pueda descifrar con una sola mirada qué lo produce.”
― Dorothy Parker

“First he goes to work and he takes some pineapple syrup and he puts it in a glass, and then he puts in just a liddle, lid-dle bit of that juice off them bottles full of red cherries, and then he puts in the gin and the ginger ale, and then he gets him a big, long piece of pineapple and he lays that in, and then when he gets the orange in and puts that old red cherry on top—well! That’s the way Horace does when he fixes a mint julep.” The”
― Dorothy Parker, Complete Stories

“Tommy and his little playmates don’t regard being young as just one of those things that are likely to happen to anybody. They make a business of it. And”
― Dorothy Parker, Complete Stories

“Razors pain you, Rivers are damp, Acids stain you,
And drugs cause cramps. Guns aren't lawful, Nooses give, Gas smells awful. You might as well live.”
― Dorothy Parker

“Two people can’t go on and on and on, doing the same things year after year, when only one of them likes doing them . . . and still be happy.”
― Dorothy Parker, Complete Stories

“But in the meantime it makes you sick to think of it. That these people who pulled themselves up from centuries of oppression and exploitation cannot go on to decent living, to peace and progress and civilization, without the murder of their children, and the blocking of their way because two men—two men—want more power. It is incredible, it is fantastic, it is absolutely beyond all belief... except that it is true.”
― Dorothy Parker

“Anyway, maybe it's only somebody that just died and left you twenty million dollars. Maybe it isn't some other woman at all.”
― Dorothy Parker, Here Lies: The Collected Stories of Dorothy Parker