Dorothy Parker Frases famosas
“Brevidade é a alma da lingerie.”
Legenda escrita para "Vogue" 1916; citado por Alexander Woollcott: While Rome Burns "Our Mrs Parker" (1934)
Ela propôs o epitáfio para si mesma, citado na Vanity Fair (Junho 1925)
“Não são as tragédias que nos matam, são as confusões.”
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
“Salário não é objeto: quero apenas o suficiente para manter o corpo e alma separados.”
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
“Os homens raras vezes tomam liberdades com mulheres que usam óculos.”
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
Dorothy Parker frases e citações
“Não se pode ensinar a um velho dogma novos truques.”
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
Atribuídas
“A cura para o tédio é curiosidade. Não há cura para a curiosidade.”
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.
Atribuídas
“Essa mulher fala dezoito línguas, e não pode dizer não em qualquer uma delas.”
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)
Atribuídas
Dorothy Parker: Frases em inglês
Fonte: 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)
Contexto: 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)
Fonte: 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)
Fonte: Here Lies: The Collected Stories of Dorothy Parker
“Three be the things I shall never attain:
Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.”
Fonte: 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)
Fonte: While Rome Burns
Contexto: 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.”
Fonte: 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."
