Creative Quotations from Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)

Creative Quotations from . . .

Dorothy Parker
(1893-1967) born on Aug 22

US "author, poet, journalist, humorist". "She was the celebrated caustic wit of the 1920s; wrote "Enough Rope," 1926 and "The Little Hours," 1944."

[We look like] a road company of the Last Supper.

His ignorance was an Empire State Building of ignorance. You had to admire it for its size.

Because he spills his seed on the ground.

That woman speaks eighteen languages and can't say No in any of them.

'House Beautiful' is the play lousy.

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	"On lunching with James Thurber and others at the Algonquin Round Table, quoted by Edmund Wilson "The Fifties," edited by Leon Edel, Farrar, Straus & Giroux 86"
R:	Referring to Harold Ross; attributed.
A:	"On naming her canary 'Onan'; referring to Genesis, 38:9, '"
N:	"Said of a departing guest; in "While Rome Burns," "Our Mrs. Parker" by Alexander Woollcot, 1934."
K:	Theater review.