dorothy parker

     

Her New Yorker book reviews were written as "Constant Reader"

Trivia about dorothy parker

  • We wonder if this witty gal wrote dialogue for "A Star Is Born" while sitting at a round table
  • This Roundtable gal quipped, "Four be the things I'd been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt"
  • This Round Table wit required "Only 3 things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid"
  • Her 1918 lunch with Robert Benchley at an Algonquin Hotel round table started a famous literary circle
  • In 1994 Ferber & Fitzgerald also appeared when Jennifer Jason Leigh played this witty writer
  • "Tonstant weader fwowed up", she wrote after finding "The House At Pooh Corner" hard to swallow
  • A quote attributed to this "Round Table" wit is "Brevity is the soul of lingerie"
  • This Algonquin wit was born in West End, N.J. in 1893 & was a drama critic for Vanity Fair by 1917
  • This Algonquin wit suggested "Excuse My Dust" as her own epitaph
  • In 1929 this Algonquin wit's "Big Blonde", about an alcoholic serial mistress, won the O. Henry Award
  • "The only thing I didn't like about 'The Barretts of Wimpole Street' was the play", said this Algonquin wit
  • One of her book reviews said, "This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force"
  • Round Table wit who noted, "Scratch a lover & find a foe"
  • A member of the Algonquin Round Table, this petite brunette wrote a story called "Big Blonde"
  • Hazel Morse was her "Big Blonde"
  • The epitaph she suggested for herself: "Excuse my dust"
  • She edited "The Portable F. Scott Fitzgerald" in 1945, & her own "Portable" collection in 1944
  • An Oscar-nominated screenwriter in the 1930s, this witty woman called L.A. "a horror to me"
  • "Brevity is the soul of lingerie" is attributed to this "Round Table" wit
  • "'House Beautiful' is play lousy"
  • (I'm Ashleigh Banfield.) "Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses", said this Algonquin Round Table member
  • In a 1931 issue of The New Yorker, she quipped, "Theodore Dreiser should ought to write nicer"
  • 1893-born wit who reportedly said, "The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue"
  • Born Dorothy Rothschild, this noted wit began her literary career with a poem published in Vanity Fair
  • Her epitaph "Excuse My Dust" is famous; fewer know that it's on a plaque at NAACP HQ, where her ashes are buried

Tweets about dorothy parker

  • RT @aristotle_guru: “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.” ― Dor…
  • Complete Stories / Dorothy Parker #キンドル #CompleteStories
  • The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. -- Dorothy Parker
  • @shaboopy Robert Benchley's girl Dorothy Parker #TCMParty
  • RT @idazzle: Yo. The Dorothy Parker of #jewelry has just spoken about #sponsoredposts. Y’all need to read it now. @Adornmentality
  • Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone. ― Dorothy Parker
  • A un hombre solo le pido tres cosas: que sea guapo, implacable y estupido. - Dorothy Parker
  • That woman speaks eight languages and can't say "no" in any of them. ― Dorothy Parker
  • RT @OnlyFamousQuote: I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true. - Dorothy Parker #famous
  • If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to. ― Dorothy Parker
  • Yo. The Dorothy Parker of #jewelry has just spoken about #sponsoredposts. Y’all need to read it now. @Adornmentality
  • I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true. - Dorothy Parker #famous
  • RT @GreatestQuotes: "Never grow a wishbone where your backbone ought to be." - Dorothy Parker
  • A shock to you Mr. Goldwyn ...in all History, for billions of humans not one ever had a happy ending - Dorothy Parker
  • Variously attributed to W. C. Fields, Tom Waits, and most commonly Dorothy Parker.
  • "The two most beautiful words in the English language are 'cheque enclosed." ― Dorothy Parker
  • I require three things in a man: he must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid. ― Dorothy Parker
  • I hate writing. I love having written. DOROTHY PARKER #amwriting #writing
  • Dorothy Parker heard you say women can't do melancholy, savagery & wit, so she's come back to do a disappointed face
  • "Never grow a wishbone where your backbone ought to be." - Dorothy Parker
  • If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to. ~Dorothy Parker
  • RT @BurtonBrown: "Never grow a wishbone where your backbone ought to be." - Dorothy Parker
  • Can I opt for a funny bone instead?“ @BurtonBrown: "Never grow a wishbone where your backbone ought to be." - Dorothy Parker”
  • If you wear a short enough skirt the party will come to you--Dorothy Parker
  • Futurist Dorothy Parker gets her toes done in Midtown while Twittering to the populace about the…
  • Three be the things I shall never attain... (Art by @YadyKates, Poem by Dorothy Parker)
  • @Jean_no une grande influence de Prince, référence à cette chanson dans l'excellente 'the ballad of Dorothy parker' sur Sign of the time
  • This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it.-Dorothy Parker
  • "Noch ein Martini und ich lieg unterm Gastgeber": Dorothy Parker.
  • RT @SFCpdx: Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone Dorothy Parker
  • Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone Dorothy Parker
  • I can’t write five words but that I change seven. ~Dorothy Parker
  • JJ Murphy: Hair of the Dog (Algonquin Round Table Mysteries): [Short Story] Dorothy Parker just wants a quiet meal wi
  • "This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force." - Dorothy Parker (love her!)
  • #Buchtip: Legendäre Gastgeberinnen und ihre Feste
  • RT @robinbloor: Where's the man that could ease a heart like a satin gown? ~ Dorothy Parker #quote
  • The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. ― Dorothy Parker
  • Where's the man that could ease a heart like a satin gown? ~ Dorothy Parker #quote
  • .@AncientPortland Dorothy Parker called her bird #Onan b/c he, too, spilled his seed upon the ground...
  • Writing tip Tuesday #3 (Advice from Dorothy Parker)
  • RT @junesitler: I hate writing, I love having written. - Dorothy Parker #amwriting
  • RT @Charis_Larson: "Life is a glorious cycle of song; & love is a thing that can never go wrong; & I am Marie of Roumania." - Dorothy Parker
  • "Life is a glorious cycle of song; & love is a thing that can never go wrong; & I am Marie of Roumania." - Dorothy Parker
  • The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant --- and let... - Dorothy Parker
  • I hate writing, I love having written. - Dorothy Parker #amwriting
  • "They tire of the calm, those that know the storm." Thanks Dorothy Parker but I am getting seasick here.
  • JJ Murphy: Murder Your Darlings: Algonquin Round Table Mystery: One morning legendary wit Dorothy Parker discovers so
  • RT @STOOSHPR: When a certain garrulous woman was described to Dorothy Parker as "outspoken," she replied: "Outspoken by whom?" IS RIGHT! #E…
  • C'est un roman qu'il ne faut pas prendre à la légère... Il faut le jeter très loin de toutes ses forces.
  • Previous post twittered bastardization of Dorothy Parker's poem "Solace" (1932). RIP to those we lose b4 their time.