Quote

Once, when I was young and true. Someone left me sad - Broke my brittle heart in two And that is very bad. Love is for unlucky folk, Love is but a curse. Once there was a heart I broke And that, I think, is worse.

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
Thinking
Left
Brittle
True
Unlucky
Two
Heartbreak
Someone
Folk
Young
Curse
Heart
Broke
Love
Folks
Think
Worse

More quotes by 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
Now to me, Edith looks like something that would eat her young.
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
All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
Dorothy Parker
Image
ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
Dorothy Parker
Image
Where's the man could ease a heart Like a satin gown?
Dorothy Parker
Image
I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.
Dorothy Parker
Image
Of Orson Welles: It's like meeting God without dying.
Dorothy Parker
Image
Some men break your heart in two, Some men fawn and flatter, Some men never look at you And that cleans up the matter.
Dorothy Parker
Image
She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go.
Dorothy Parker
Image
Pictures pass me in long review,-- Marching columns of dead events. I was tender, and, often, true Ever a prey to coincidence. Always knew I the consequence Always saw what the end would be. We're as Nature has made us -- hence I loved them until they loved me.
Dorothy Parker
Image
That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.
Dorothy Parker
Image
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song
Dorothy Parker
Image
I wanted to be cute. That's the terrible thing. I should have had more sense.
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
Innocence is a desirable thing, a dainty thing, an appealing thing, in its place but carried too far, it is merely ridiculous.
Dorothy Parker
Image
And I'll stay off Verlaine too he was always chasing Rimbauds.
Dorothy Parker
Image
Hell's afloat in lover's tears.
Dorothy Parker
Image
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
Dorothy Parker
Image
Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
Dorothy Parker