Today is one of my favorites, Dorothy Parker’s birthday Dorothy Parker was a writer (theater reviewer for Vanity Fair, essayist, poet, author of short fiction as well as screenplays from the 1920s-1950s. She wrote the screenplay for the original A Star is Born, which has been adapted 492 times. She was amazing. Her witticisms are timeless. And for that, I give you my favorite DP quotes. Not to mention, ”men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.” Bet you didn’t know that was hers.
”This wasn’t just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. It was terrible with raisins in it.”
”There’s a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.”
”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!”Why is it no one sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it’s always just my luck to get one perfect rose.
“Why is it no one sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it’s always just my luck to get one perfect rose.”
“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.”
“Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.”
“Hold your pen and spare your voice.”
“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.”
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