Quote

Upton Sinclair is his own King Charles' head. He cannot keep himself out of his writings, try though he may or, by this time, try though he doesn't.

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
Though
Keep
Doesn
Sinclair
Cannot
Writings
May
Charles
Writing
King
Trying
Kings
Time
Head

More quotes by Dorothy Parker

Image
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
Image
Well, there are always those who cannot distinguish between glitter and glamour . . . the glamour of Isadora Duncan came from her great, torn, bewildered, foolhardy soul.
Dorothy Parker
Image
[When asked what was the inspiration for most of her work:] Need of money, dear.
Dorothy Parker
Image
Art is a form of catharsis emotional release, purging, cleansing, purifying.
Dorothy Parker
Image
[On Katharine Hepburn's stage performance:] She ran the whole gamut of emotions, from A to B.
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
Image
What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
Dorothy Parker
Image
Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.
Dorothy Parker
Image
I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
Dorothy Parker
Image
Where unwilling dies the rose buds the new another year.
Dorothy Parker
Image
[On James Gould Cozzens' By Love Possessed:] It is a vast enterprise encompassing all sorts of love, except, naturally, those branches which extend to Jews, Negroes, and people who have lost track of their great-grandparents.
Dorothy Parker
Image
The Monte Carlo casino refused to admit me until I was properly dressed so I went and found my stockings, and then came back and lost my shirt.
Dorothy Parker
Image
Now, look, baby, 'Union' is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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
I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
Dorothy Parker
Image
Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
Dorothy Parker
Image
If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
Dorothy Parker
Image
[On an actor who'd broken her leg in London:] Oh, how terrible. She must have done it sliding down a barrister.
Dorothy Parker
Image
[Hospitalized and pressing the nurse's button before dictating letters to her secretary:] This should assure us of at least forty-five minutes of undisturbed privacy.
Dorothy Parker
Image
[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
Dorothy Parker