Dorothy Parker
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16 quotes we’ve traced to Dorothy Parker
“Excuse my dust”
Verified“There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit”
Verified“You Cannot Persuade Her with Gun or Lariat, To Come Across for the Proletariat”
Verified“Age before beauty. Pearls before swine”
Attributed“If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised”
Attributed“Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair”
Attributed“She Runs the Gamut of Human Emotion from A to B”
Attributed“You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think”
Attributed“You can't teach an old dogma new tricks”
Attributed“A Gift Book Is an Item Which You Wouldn't Take on Any Other Terms”
Disputed“Hogamous, Higamous, Man is Polygamous, Higamous, Hogamous, Woman is Monagamous”
Disputed“I Was the Toast of Two Continents: Greenland and Australia”
Disputed“Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city”
Disputed“She is always kind to her inferiors. — But where does she find them?”
Disputed“She Speaks Eighteen Languages, and Can't Say "No" in Any of Them”
Disputed“The Two Most Beautiful Words in the English Language Are "Check Enclosed"”
DisputedNot actually Dorothy Parker
Often misattributed to Dorothy Parker
Famous lines widely pinned on Dorothy Parker that we’ve traced to someone else.
“Don't Like to Write, But Like Having Written”
actually Frank Norris
“First I Brush My Teeth and Then I Sharpen My Tongue”
actually Oscar Levant
“He's a Writer for the Ages—For the Ages of Four to Eight”
actually George Jean Nathan
“Hogamous, Higamous, Man is Polygamous, Higamous, Hogamous, Woman is Monagamous”
actually No verified author
“I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy”
actually Carlton W. Berenda
“If you want to know what the Lord God thinks of money, just look at those to whom he gives it”
actually Martin Luther
“Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city”
actually Unknown
“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity”
actually Ellen Parr
“The Two Most Beautiful Words in the English Language Are "Check Enclosed"”
Unknown — popularly credited to Dorothy Parker
“This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force”
actually Bill Miller
“Written Without Fear and Without Research”
actually Carl L. Becker
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