The Portable Dorothy Parker Quotes

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All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted.

The Portable Dorothy Parker

You think You're frightening me with Your hell, don't You? You think Your hell is worse than mine.

The Portable Dorothy Parker

Men They hail you as their morning star Because you are the way you are. If you return the sentiment, They'll try to make you different; And once they have you, safe and sound, They want to change you all around. Your moods and ways they put a curse ...

The Portable Dorothy Parker

Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.

The Portable Dorothy Parker

I won't telephone him. I'll never telephone him again as long as I live. He'll rot in hell, before I'll call him up. You don't have to give me strength, God; I have it myself. If he wanted me, he could get me. He knows where I am. He knows I'm waitin...

The Portable Dorothy Parker

My love runs by like a day in June, And he makes no friends of sorrows. He'll tread his galloping rigadoon In the pathway of the morrows. He'll live his days where the sunbeams start, Nor could storm or wind uproot him. My own dear love, he is all my...

The Portable Dorothy Parker

Little Words When you are gone, there is nor bloom nor leaf, Nor singing sea at night, nor silver birds; And I can only stare, and shape my grief In little words. I cannot conjure loveliness, to drown The bitter woe that racks my cords apart. The wea...

The Portable Dorothy Parker

There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.

The Portable Dorothy Parker