Dorothy Parker citáty

„Ak chceš vedieť čo si boh myslí o peniazoch, pozri sa na ľudí, ktorým ich dal.“

—  Dorothy Parker

„V živote sa človek učí najprv chodiť a rozprávať. Neskôr sa učí sedieť a držať hubu.“

—  Dorothy Parker

„In youth, it was a way I had,
To do my best to please.
And change, with every passing lad
To suit his theories.

But now I know the things I know
And do the things I do,
And if you do not like me so,
To hell, my love, with you.“

—  Dorothy Parker

Zdroj: The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker

„Drink and dance and laugh and lie,
Love, the reeling midnight through,
For tomorrow we shall die!
(But, alas, we never do.)“

—  Dorothy Parker

Zdroj: "The Flaw in Paganism" in Death and Taxes (1931)

„They sicken of the calm who know the storm.“

—  Dorothy Parker

Zdroj: Sunset Gun: Poems

„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. p. 375“

—  Dorothy Parker

Chapter 6: 1923

„By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing.
And he vows his passion is,
Infinite, undying.
Lady make note of this --
One of you is lying.“

—  Dorothy Parker

„I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.“

—  Dorothy Parker

Varianta: I've never been a millionaire but I know I'd be just darling at it.

„Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.“

—  Dorothy Parker

„If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.“

—  Dorothy Parker

Man and the Gospel (1865) by Thomas Guthrie "and you may know how little God thinks of money by observing on what bad and contemptible characters he often bestows it."
“We may see the small Value God has for Riches, by the People he gives them to.” -- Alexander Pope (1727).
Misattributed
Varianta: If you want to know what the Lord God thinks of money, just look at those to whom he gives it.

„The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.“

—  Dorothy Parker

„Razors pain you,
Rivers are damp,
Acids stain you,
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful,
Nooses give,
Gas smells awful.
You might as well live.“

—  Dorothy Parker

Zdroj: Enough Rope

„Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common.“

—  Dorothy Parker

„I hate writing, I love having written.“

—  Dorothy Parker

„Don't look at me in that tone of voice.“

—  Dorothy Parker

„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.“

—  Dorothy Parker

Variant of:
I wish I could drink like a lady.
“Two or three,” at the most.
But two, and I’m under the table—
And three, I'm under the host.
The Harlequin, Volume 2, 1959, University of Virginia (page ? http://books.google.com/books?id=zdFKAAAAYAAJ&q=%22under+the+table%22+%22under+the+host%22)
Perhaps attributed due to “One more drink and I'd have been under the host.” (see above).
“ Martini Madness: Dorothy Parker didn’t write the famous quatrain about martinis that’s always attributed to her. http://www.slate.com/articles/life/drink/features/2013/martini_madness_tournament/sweet_16/dorothy_parker_martini_poem_why_the_attribution_is_spurious.html”, Troy Patterson, Slate, April 8, 2013
Misattributed
Varianta: One martini. Two at the most. Three I'm under the table, four I'm under the host!
Zdroj: The Collected Dorothy Parker

„What fresh hell is this?“

—  Dorothy Parker

"If the doorbell rang in her apartment, she would say, 'What fresh hell can this be?' — and it wasn't funny; she meant it." You might as well live: the life and times of Dorothy Parker, John Keats (Simon Schuster, 1970, p124). Often quoted as "What fresh hell is this?" as in the title of the 1987 biography by Marion Meade, "Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?".
Varianta: What fresh hell can this be?
Zdroj: The Portable Dorothy Parker

„If I didn't care for fun and such,
I'd probably amount to much.
But I shall stay the way I am,
Because I do not give a damn.“

—  Dorothy Parker

16 August 1925
Zdroj: Enough Rope (1926)

„Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.“

—  Dorothy Parker

"But the One on the Right" in The New Yorker (1929)
Kontext: That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.