Dorothy Parker Quotes

Nationality:American

Walk of life:Poet

Born:22 August 1893, United States

Died:7 June 1967, United States

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Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
DOROTHY PARKER

Excitement Fortune Irritation
It was written without fear and without research.
DOROTHY PARKER

Fear Research Writing
This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn’t touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
DOROTHY PARKER

Fools Sorry Touch
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

Beautiful Clean Deep Order Skin Ugly
Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
DOROTHY PARKER

Jealous Satisfaction Wine
Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
DOROTHY PARKER

Brave Doctor
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.
DOROTHY PARKER

Funny Life Study Theft
Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
DOROTHY PARKER

Appearance Beautiful Greatness Healing Time
Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
DOROTHY PARKER

Tone View Voice
I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
DOROTHY PARKER

Money Wealth

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