Dorothy Parker Citations
Dorothy Parker: Citations en anglais
“All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted.”
Source: The Portable Dorothy Parker
“Trapped like a trap in a trap”
Source: The Portable Dorothy Parker
“Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart.”
New Yorker (4 February 1928)
Her proposed epitaph for herself, quoted in Vanity Fair (June 1925)
Variante: A Very Short Song
Once, when I was young and true,
Someone left me sad-
Broke my brittle heart in two;
And that is very bad.
Love is for unlucky folk,
Love is but a curse.
Once there was a heart I broke;
And that, I think, is worse.
Source: Enough Rope
“There was a reason for the cost of those perfectly plain black dresses.”
Source: The Portable Dorothy Parker
First printed in New Yorker, (9 April 1927) p. 31
Sunset Gun (1927)
“Now to me, Edith looks like something that would eat her young.”
Source: The Collected Dorothy Parker
“tomorrow's gone-we'll have tonight!”
Source: The Poetry and Short Stories of Dorothy Parker
