Dorothy Parker Citations
Dorothy Parker: Citations en anglais
Source: The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker
“I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me.”
"The Little Hours" in Here Lies (1939)
Contexte: 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.
From a review of the revised edition of “The Elements of Style” by William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White published in Esquire, November 1959.
“It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard.”
On her abortion, as quoted in You Might as well Live by John Keats (1970)
Source: You Might as Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker
“Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.”
16 August 1925
Enough Rope (1926)
"The Little Hours" in Here Lies (1939)
Source: Here Lies: The Collected Stories of Dorothy Parker
“You think You're frightening me with Your hell, don't You? You think Your hell is worse than mine.”
Source: The Portable Dorothy Parker
“Three be the things I shall never attain:
Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.”
Source: The Portable Dorothy Parker
“If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised.”
Our Mrs Parker (1934)
Source: While Rome Burns
Contexte: And there was that wholesale libel on a Yale prom. If all the girls attending it were laid end to end, Mrs Parker said, she wouldn't be at all surprised.
“You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.”
Source: Attributed to Parker after her death, by Robert E. Drennan The Algonquin Wits (1968), p. 124. However the same quip appears anonymously fifteen years earlier, in the trade journal Sales Management (Chicago: Dartnell Corp., 1918-75), vol. 70 (Survey of Buying Power, 1953), p. 80: "Marxism never changes. You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks."
