Quote

There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about it.

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
Magnificent
Follow
Reader
Cannot
Nothing
Must
Disregard

More quotes by Dorothy Parker

Image
Accursed from their birth they be Who seek to find monogamy, Pursuing it from bed to bed— I think they would be better dead.
Dorothy Parker
Image
Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
Dorothy Parker
Image
Art is a form of catharsis emotional release, purging, cleansing, purifying.
Dorothy Parker
Image
It was written without fear and without research.
Dorothy Parker
Image
People are more fun than anyone.
Dorothy Parker
Image
I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
Dorothy Parker
Image
(Scottish Terriers) 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 it has been in a fight.
Dorothy Parker
Image
I hate writing, I love having written.
Dorothy Parker
Image
I give her sadness and the gift of pain, a new moon madness and a love of rain.
Dorothy Parker
Image
Where unwilling dies the rose buds the new another year.
Dorothy Parker
Image
I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a great work. But this is no great work, you see.
Dorothy Parker
Image
If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit We all assume that Oscar said it.
Dorothy Parker
Image
Where's the man could ease a heart Like a satin gown?
Dorothy Parker
Image
Scratch a king and find a fool!
Dorothy Parker
Image
ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
Dorothy Parker
Image
Hollywood is one place in the world where you can die of encouragement.
Dorothy Parker
Image
[Completely bored by a country weekend, wiring to a friend:] For heaven's sake, rush me a loaf of bread, enclosing saw and file.
Dorothy Parker
Image
Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn.
Dorothy Parker
Image
But I give you my word, in the entire book there is nothing that cannot be said aloud in mixed company. And there is, also, nothing that makes you a bit the wiser. I wonder--oh, what will you think of me--if those two statements do not verge upon the synonymous.
Dorothy Parker
Image
The House Beautiful is the play lousy.
Dorothy Parker