What fresh hell is this?
Dorothy ParkerTake me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
Dorothy ParkerStichwörter: humor
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.
Dorothy ParkerStichwörter: the-little-hours
I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me. 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 anything. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.
Dorothy ParkerStichwörter: obscurity the-new-yorker inconsequence
You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.
Dorothy ParkerStichwörter: horticulture puns
The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.
Dorothy ParkerI know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
Dorothy ParkerBy the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing.
And he vows his passion is,
Infinite, undying.
Lady make note of this --
One of you is lying.
Stichwörter: love passion cynicism lying courtship
And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word.
Dorothy ParkerStichwörter: humor writing on-writing flaubert
People Who Do Things exceed my endurance;
God, for a man that solicits insurance!
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