Quote

Where's the man could ease a heart Like a satin gown?

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
Like
Satin
Gown
Gowns
Ease
Fashion
Heart
Men

More quotes by Dorothy Parker

Image
The ones I like are ‘cheque’ and ‘enclosed.’
Dorothy Parker
Image
If I had a shiny gun I could have a world of fun Speeding bullets through the brains Of the folks that cause me pains :)
Dorothy Parker
Image
His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
Dorothy Parker
Image
It's not the tragedies that kill us it's the messes.
Dorothy Parker
Image
[On Kay Strozzi in The Silent Witness:] Miss Strozzi ... had the temerity to wear as truly horrible a gown as ever I have seen on the American stage. ... Had she not luckily been strangled by a member of the cast while disporting this garment, I should have fought my way to the stage and done her in, myself.
Dorothy Parker
Image
London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful.
Dorothy Parker
Image
He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
Dorothy Parker
Image
...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.
Dorothy Parker
Image
Hell's afloat in lover's tears.
Dorothy Parker
Image
Her big heart did not, as is so sadly often the case, inhabit a big bosom.
Dorothy Parker
Image
One more drink and I'd have been under the host.
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
If I don't drive around the park, I'm pretty sure to make my mark. If I'm in bed each night by ten, I may get back my looks again. If I abstain from fun and such, I'll probably amount to much But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.
Dorothy Parker
Image
Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
Dorothy Parker
Image
I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
Dorothy Parker
Image
Daily dawns another day I must up, to make my way. Though I dress and drink and eat, Move my fingers and my feet, Learn a little, here and there, Weep and laugh and sweat and swear, Hear a song, or watch a stage, Leave some words upon a page, Claim a foe, or hail a friend- Bed awaits me at the end.
Dorothy Parker
Image
[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
Dorothy Parker
Image
People are more than fun than anybody.
Dorothy Parker
Image
The House Beautiful is the play lousy.
Dorothy Parker
Image
Prince or commoner, tenor or bass, Painter or plumber or never-do-well, Do me a favor and shut your face - Poets alone should kiss and tell.
Dorothy Parker