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Источник: "The Flaw in Paganism" in Death and Taxes (1931)
Источник: The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918–1923 (2014) https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25758762M/Dorothy_Parker_Complete_Broadway_1918-1923, Chapter 6: 1923
“They sicken of the calm who know the storm.”
Источник: Sunset Gun: Poems
“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”
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
Вариант: If you want to know what the Lord God thinks of money, just look at those to whom he gives it.
“Too fucking busy, and vice versa.”
Response to an editor pressuring her for overdue work, as quoted in The Unimportance of Being Oscar (1968) by Oscar Levant, p. 89
“I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.”
Вариант: I've never been a millionaire but I know I'd be just darling at it.
Variant of:<br>I wish I could drink like a lady.<br>“Two or three,” at the most.<br>But two, and I’m under the table—<br>And three, I'm under the host. <br class="br">The Harlequin, Volume 2, 1959, University of Virginia (page ? http://books.google.com/books?id=zdFKAAAAYAAJ&q=%22under+the+table%22+%22under+the+host%22) <br class="br">Perhaps attributed due to “One more drink and I'd have been under the host.” (see above). <br class="br">“ Martini Madness: Dorothy Parker didn’t write the famous quatrain about martinis that’s always attributed to her. http://www.slate.com/articles/life/drink/features/2013/martini_madness_tournament/sweet_16/dorothy_parker_martini_poem_why_the_attribution_is_spurious.html”, Troy Patterson, Slate, April 8, 2013 <br class="br">Misattributed <br class="br">Вариант: One martini. Two at the most. Three I'm under the table, four I'm under the host! <br class="br">Источник: The Collected Dorothy Parker
"If the doorbell rang in her apartment, she would say, 'What fresh hell can this be?' — and it wasn't funny; she meant it." You might as well live: the life and times of Dorothy Parker, John Keats (Simon Schuster, 1970, p124). Often quoted as "What fresh hell is this?" as in the title of the 1987 biography by Marion Meade, "Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?".
Вариант: What fresh hell can this be?
Источник: The Portable Dorothy Parker
16 August 1925
Источник: Enough Rope (1926)
“Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.”
"But the One on the Right" in The New Yorker (1929)
Контексте: That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
“You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.”
Parker's answer when asked to use the word horticulture during a game of Can-You-Give-Me-A-Sentence?, as quoted in You Might as well Live by John Keats (1970).
Источник: You Might as Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker
“Brevity is the soul of lingerie.”
Caption written for Vogue 1916
Our Mrs Parker (1934)
Источник: While Rome Burns
“That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say No in any of them.”
A similar line was later used by Ira Gershwin in "The Saga of Jenny" in Lady in the Dark (1942): "In 27 languages she couldn't say no."
Our Mrs Parker (1934)
Источник: While Rome Burns
