Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
On lady novelists: As artists they're rot, but as providers they're oil wells they gush. Norris said she never wrote a story unless it was fun to do. I understand Ferber whistles at her typewriter.
Dorothy Parker
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Understanding
Typewriters
Story
Novelists
Understand
Oil
Artist
Lady
Stories
Wrote
Gush
Wells
Artists
Whistles
Never
Unless
Providers
Fun
Typewriter
More quotes by Dorothy Parker
His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
Dorothy Parker
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
His books are exciting and powerful and — if I may filch the word from the booksy ones — pulsing.
Dorothy Parker
[At the reception following her remarriage to Alan Campbell:] People who haven't talked to each other in years are on speaking terms again today - including the bride and groom.
Dorothy Parker
I misremember who first was cruel enough to nurture the cocktail party into life. But perhaps it would be not too much to say, in fact it would be not enough to say, that it was not worth the trouble.
Dorothy Parker
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
Oh, both my shoes are shiny new, And pristine is my hat My dress is 1922… My life is all like that.
Dorothy Parker
I was the toast of two continents: Greenland and Australia.
Dorothy Parker
You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.
Dorothy Parker
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
The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
Dorothy Parker
Friends come and go but I wouldn't have thought you'd be one of them
Dorothy Parker
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
What writes worse than a Theodore Dreiser? ... Two Theodore Dreisers.
Dorothy Parker
Now, look, baby, 'Union' is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
Dorothy Parker
ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
Dorothy Parker
Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
Dorothy Parker
Scratch a king and find a fool!
Dorothy Parker
Nevil Shute's On the Beach is no Christmas carol, but it seems to me a remarkably fine novel, one which I read, in the peculiarly repulsive phrase, with my eyes glued to the page.
Dorothy Parker
If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
Dorothy Parker