Top 15 Dorothy Parker Quotes

72 suburbs in search of a city

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I'm under the table,
After four I'm under my host.

How odd
Of God
To choose
The Jews

Upon my honor
I saw a Madonna
Standing in a niche
Over the door
Of the glamorous whore
Of a prominent son of a bitch.

If you want to know what the Lord God thinks of money, just look at those to whom he gives it.

Age Before Beauty." "Pearls Before Swine."

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

Two things made The Dice of the Gods, another play about drugs, seem much better than it had any real right to seem. One was that Morphia had come first, and once you had seen Morphia, nothing seemd so very terrible to you. <small>p. 375</small>

It is advertised as “a seagoin’ comedy,” and anytime they go leaving off the final g that way, you know what to expect. <small>p. 324</small>

The murdered man meets his death in an intriguing and novel manner, which the management asks its customers, as a personal favor, not to reveal to possible future audiences. It remains a secret, chummily shared by those that have seen the play and the four or five million who read it in its original form as a Saturday Evening Post story a year or so ago. p. 320

There is one thing that appreciably eases the strain for the plays that arrive at this time of year, and that is that practically nothing is expected of them. <small>p. 306</small>

If you arrive late, you won't know what anything is about, and if you are there all the way from the beginning, you won't care. <small>p. 277</small>

Rockliffe Fellowes gives a likable performance of the secondary crook's rôle, and there are some decidedly agreeable-looking doughnuts consumed in the first act. And that is about all one can say for Pot Luck. <small>p. 260</small>

So seeing that there is nothing further to say, I shall go right on talking about The Circle, thus proving that I am a born reviewer of plays. <small>p. 256</small>