Parker claimed that she did not belong to a political party (in 1937). She said that the one group she associated with “that not especially brave little band that hid its nakedness of heart and mind under the out-of-date garment of a sense of humor.”
Source, Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This, by Marion [...]
See the happy moron, He doesn’t give a damn. I wish I were a moron, My God! Perhaps I am!
“Don’t let me take any horses home with me. It doesn’t matter so much about stray dogs and kittens, but elevator boys get awfully stuffy when you try to bring a horse. You might as well know that about me now, Fred. You can always tell that the crash is coming when [...]
“Why did you want to go all the way over and get into that messy thing for? A person like you!”
Source: Dorothy Parker, What Fresh Hell is This? By Marion Meade
“When the train of history went around a sharp curve, he fell out of the dining car.”
Source: Dorothy Parker, What Fresh Hell Is This? by Marion Meade
“A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika”
“It required but a glance to tell that for him there had been no singing stars that evening in the heavens. He sat with his newspaper opened to the financial page, and bitterness had its way with his soul.”
From “Glory in the Daytime”
“I don’t think another drink would make me feel any better. I don’t know whether I want to feel better. What’s the sense of feeling good, when life’s so terrible. Oh, all right, then. But please tell him just a little one, if it isn’t too much trouble.”
From “Just A Little [...]
“Yet, as she awaited her guest, Mrs. Hazelton’s anticipation was not without alloy. The thought of Miss Nicholl always brought with it a nasty guilt. She supposed she really ought to do more for the poor thing. But what more could she do? It was unthinkable that you could tuck a [...]
“They don’t cry. Only you see their eyes. While you’re there and after you’re back, you see their eyes.”
Source, Dorothy Parker, What Fresh Hell is This? by Marion Meade