Dorothy Parker Quote

You know how a play in dialect is. At the first act, you think, How quaint! ; at the second act, you wish they would either stop using dialect or keep quiet; and at the third act, you wish you hadn't come. And Tillie, may I mention in passing, has four acts.

Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918–1923 (2014) - Chapter 2: 1919

You know how a play in dialect is. At the first act, you think, How quaint! ; at the second act, you wish they would either stop using dialect or...

You know how a play in dialect is. At the first act, you think, How quaint! ; at the second act, you wish they would either stop using dialect or...

You know how a play in dialect is. At the first act, you think, How quaint! ; at the second act, you wish they would either stop using dialect or...

You know how a play in dialect is. At the first act, you think, How quaint! ; at the second act, you wish they would either stop using dialect or...