ardhanishvara
20th February 2006, 04:57 PM
Dorothy Parker (American short-story Writer and Poet, 1893-1967)
"Accursed from birth they be Who seek to find monogamy Pursuing it from
bed to bed I think they would be better dead"
"A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika."
"Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone"
"Brevity is the soul of lingerie."
"By the time you swear you are his, shivering and sighing, And he vows
his passion is infinite and undying- Lady, make a note of this: One of
you is lying"
""Cheque enclosed" are the two most beautiful words in the English language"
"Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight
through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do)"
"Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity,
freckles and doubt."
"He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have
been adultery."
"Her mind lives tidily, apart From cold and noise and pain, And bolts
the door against her heart, Out wailing in the rain."
"Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common"
"His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets."
"I can't write five words but that I change seven"
"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy".
"I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true."
"I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be a
darling at it."
"If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I
wouldn't be a bit surprised."
"If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people
he gave it to."
"If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's
going to be the best you can do, and it's the fact that it's the best
you can do that kills you."
"I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never
will be. And I know that ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a
weapon."
"I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations
beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn
things."
"I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the
roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do any thing. Not one single
thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more."
"I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid".
"It's a small apartment, I've barely enough room to lay my hat
and a few friends."
"It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard."
"It's not the tragedies that kill us, it's the messes"
"I was fired from there, finally, for a lot of things, among
them my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was spontaneous
combustion."
"I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella"
"I wish I could drink like a lady / I can take one or two at the most /
Three and I'm under the table / Four and I'm under the host"
"Lips that taste of tears, they say/ Are the best for kissing"
"Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open
and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away."
"Men don't like nobility in woman. Not any men. I suppose it is because
the men like to have the copyrights on nobility -- if there is going
to be anything like that in a relationship."
"Men seldom make passes
At girls who wear glasses."
"Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair."
"My land is bare of chattering folk; / the clouds are low along the
ridges, / and sweet's the air with curly smoke / from all my burning
bridges"
"Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if
you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!"
"Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Romania."
"Razors pain you; rivers are damp; acids stain you; and drugs cause
cramp. Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful; you might as
well live."
"Scratch a lover, and find a foe."
"She looks like something that would eat its young"
"She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B. ( speaking of Katharine Hepburn)"
"Sorrow is tranquillity remembered in emotion."
"Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves."
"That woman speaks 18 languages and can't say "No" in any of them"
"That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever
she went, including here, it was against her better judgment."
"The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere
pleasant--and let the air out of the tires."
"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."
"There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it."
"They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm."
"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown
with great force."
"This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was
terrible with raisins in it"
"Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably
right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness."
"Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that if
we are not beautiful to each other, we cannot know beauty in any
form."
"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."
"When told that a certain woman would not hurt a fly Dorothy
Parker retorted, "Not if it was buttoned up"
"Where's the man could ease a heart / Like a satin gown?"
"Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words."
"You can drag a horticulture, but you can't make her think
(on being challenged to use the word Horticulture in a sentence.)"
"Accursed from birth they be Who seek to find monogamy Pursuing it from
bed to bed I think they would be better dead"
"A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika."
"Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone"
"Brevity is the soul of lingerie."
"By the time you swear you are his, shivering and sighing, And he vows
his passion is infinite and undying- Lady, make a note of this: One of
you is lying"
""Cheque enclosed" are the two most beautiful words in the English language"
"Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight
through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do)"
"Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity,
freckles and doubt."
"He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have
been adultery."
"Her mind lives tidily, apart From cold and noise and pain, And bolts
the door against her heart, Out wailing in the rain."
"Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common"
"His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets."
"I can't write five words but that I change seven"
"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy".
"I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true."
"I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be a
darling at it."
"If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I
wouldn't be a bit surprised."
"If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people
he gave it to."
"If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's
going to be the best you can do, and it's the fact that it's the best
you can do that kills you."
"I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never
will be. And I know that ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a
weapon."
"I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations
beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn
things."
"I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the
roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do any thing. Not one single
thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more."
"I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid".
"It's a small apartment, I've barely enough room to lay my hat
and a few friends."
"It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard."
"It's not the tragedies that kill us, it's the messes"
"I was fired from there, finally, for a lot of things, among
them my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was spontaneous
combustion."
"I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella"
"I wish I could drink like a lady / I can take one or two at the most /
Three and I'm under the table / Four and I'm under the host"
"Lips that taste of tears, they say/ Are the best for kissing"
"Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open
and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away."
"Men don't like nobility in woman. Not any men. I suppose it is because
the men like to have the copyrights on nobility -- if there is going
to be anything like that in a relationship."
"Men seldom make passes
At girls who wear glasses."
"Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair."
"My land is bare of chattering folk; / the clouds are low along the
ridges, / and sweet's the air with curly smoke / from all my burning
bridges"
"Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if
you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!"
"Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Romania."
"Razors pain you; rivers are damp; acids stain you; and drugs cause
cramp. Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful; you might as
well live."
"Scratch a lover, and find a foe."
"She looks like something that would eat its young"
"She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B. ( speaking of Katharine Hepburn)"
"Sorrow is tranquillity remembered in emotion."
"Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves."
"That woman speaks 18 languages and can't say "No" in any of them"
"That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever
she went, including here, it was against her better judgment."
"The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere
pleasant--and let the air out of the tires."
"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."
"There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it."
"They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm."
"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown
with great force."
"This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was
terrible with raisins in it"
"Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably
right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness."
"Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that if
we are not beautiful to each other, we cannot know beauty in any
form."
"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."
"When told that a certain woman would not hurt a fly Dorothy
Parker retorted, "Not if it was buttoned up"
"Where's the man could ease a heart / Like a satin gown?"
"Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words."
"You can drag a horticulture, but you can't make her think
(on being challenged to use the word Horticulture in a sentence.)"