„Desculpe a minha poeira.“
Ela propôs o epitáfio para si mesma, citado na Vanity Fair (Junho 1925)
Data de nascimento: 22. Agosto 1893
Data de falecimento: 7. Junho 1967
Outros nomes: Dorothy Parkerová
Dorothy Parker foi uma escritora, poetisa, dramaturga e crítica estadunidense.
Ela propôs o epitáfio para si mesma, citado na Vanity Fair (Junho 1925)
It's not the tragedies that kill us, it's the messes.
Dorothy Parker in her own words - página 80, Dorothy Parker, Barry Day - Taylor Trade Pub., 2004, ISBN 1589790715, 9781589790711 - 203 páginas
Legenda escrita para "Vogue" 1916; citado por Alexander Woollcott: While Rome Burns "Our Mrs Parker" (1934)
You can't teach an old dogma new tricks .
citada em Western water shortage? - página 92, Roy Nels Vernström, Kish J. Sharma - Nero and Associates, 1984 - 114 páginas
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity
citado em Business research methods - página 111, William G. Zikmund, William G. Zikmund - Thomson/South-Western, 2003, ISBN 0030350840, 9780030350849 - 748 páginas
amplamente atribuido a Dorothy Parker e Ellen Parr, mas a origem é desconhecida.
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses
Not much fun: the lost poems of Dorothy Parker - página 32, Dorothy Parker, Stuart Y. Silverstein, Dorothy Parker - Scribner, 1996 - 256 páginas
That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say No in any of them.
citado por Alexander Voollcott no ensaio biográfico "Our Mrs Parker" (1934)
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Salary is no object; I want only enough to keep body and soul apart.
Constant Reader - página 59, Dorothy Parker - Viking Press, 1927, ISBN 067023916X, 9780670239160 - 157 páginas
Fonte: "The Flaw in Paganism" in Death and Taxes (1931)
Fonte: Sunset Gun: Poems
Variante: I've never been a millionaire but I know I'd be just darling at it.
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
Variante: If you want to know what the Lord God thinks of money, just look at those to whom he gives it.