Quote

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, a medley of extemporanea, And love is a thing that can never go wrong, and I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Dorothy Parker
Age: 73 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 22
Died: 1967
Died: June 7
Columnist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Poet
Screenwriter
Songwriter
Writer
West End
Monmouth County
New Jersey
Dorothy Rothschild
Dot Rothschild
Dottie Rothschild
Life
Cycle
Cycles
Glorious
Wrong
Song
Thing
Medley
Never
Romania
Love
Marie

More quotes by Dorothy Parker

Image
Yes, well, let me tell you that if nobody had ever learned to quote, very few people would be in love with La Rochefoucauld. I bet you I don't know ten souls who read him without a middleman.
Dorothy Parker
Image
I like to have a martini/Two at the very most.
Dorothy Parker
Image
The Swiss are a neat and an industrious people, none of whom is under seventy-five years of age.
Dorothy Parker
Image
There was nothing separate about her days. Like drops on the window-pane, they ran together and trickled away.
Dorothy Parker
Image
Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
Dorothy Parker
Image
all men are the same age.
Dorothy Parker
Image
I won't telephone him. I'll never telephone him again as long as I live. He'll rot in hell, before I'll call him up. You don't have to give me strength, God I have it myself. If he wanted me, he could get me. He knows where I am. He knows I'm waiting here. He's so sure of me, so sure. I wonder why they hate you, as soon as they are sure of you.
Dorothy Parker
Image
The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.
Dorothy Parker
Image
The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters. The boys have gone hog-wild with liberty, yet the short flat terms used over and over, both in dialogue and narrative, add neither vigor nor clarity the effect is not of shock but of something far more dangerous — tedium.
Dorothy Parker
Image
It is that word 'hunny,' my darlings, that marks the first place in The House at Pooh Corner at which Tonstant Weader fwowed up.
Dorothy Parker
Image
It's not the tragedies that kill us it's the messes.
Dorothy Parker
Image
[Requesting her epitaph to read this way:] Excuse my dust.
Dorothy Parker
Image
I shudder at the thought of men.... I'm due to fall in love again
Dorothy Parker
Image
Said of her husband on the day their divorce became final: Oh, don't worry about Alan. . . . Alan will always land on somebody's feet.
Dorothy Parker
Image
... if this world were anything near what it should be there would be no more need of a Book Week than there would be a of a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
Dorothy Parker
Image
[On Lou Tellegen's Women Have Been Kind:] The book ... has all the elegance of a quirked little finger and all the glitter of a pair of new rubbers.
Dorothy Parker
Image
Age before beauty, and pearls before swine.
Dorothy Parker
Image
We were all imitative. We all wandered in after Miss Edna St. Vincent Millay. We were all being dashing and gallant, declaring we weren't virgins, whether we were or not.
Dorothy Parker
Image
My first love was Cinderella, but she ran off with another man.
Dorothy Parker
Image
All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted.
Dorothy Parker