Frases de Dorothy Parker

„Não são as tragédias que nos matam, são as confusões.“

—  Dorothy Parker

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

„Brevidade é a alma da lingerie.“

—  Dorothy Parker

Legenda escrita para "Vogue" 1916; citado por Alexander Woollcott: While Rome Burns "Our Mrs Parker" (1934)

„A beleza é apenas superficial, mas feia vai limpa até o osso.“

—  Dorothy Parker

„Salário não é objeto: quero apenas o suficiente para manter o corpo e alma separados.“

—  Dorothy Parker

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

„A melhor maneira de prender os filhos em casa é fazer do lar um lugar agradável - e esvaziar os pneus do carro.“

—  Dorothy Parker

„Não se pode ensinar a um velho dogma novos truques.“

—  Dorothy Parker

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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„Essa mulher fala dezoito línguas, e não pode dizer não em qualquer uma delas.“

—  Dorothy Parker

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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„A cura para o tédio é curiosidade. Não há cura para a curiosidade.“

—  Dorothy Parker

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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„Os homens raras vezes tomam liberdades com mulheres que usam óculos.“

—  Dorothy Parker

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

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

—  Dorothy Parker

Fonte: Sunset Gun: Poems

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

—  Dorothy Parker

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

„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

„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

Fonte: The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker

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

—  Dorothy Parker

Variante: 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
Variante: 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

Fonte: Enough Rope