Dorothy Parker - Book Quotes

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But I give you my word, in the entire book there is nothing that cannot be said aloud in mixed company. And there is, also, nothing that makes you a bit the wiser. I wonder—oh, what will you think of me—if those two statements do not verge upon the synonymous.

Dorothy Parker
I'm of the glamorous ladies At whose beckoning history shook. But you are a man, and see only my pan, So I stay at home with a book.

Dorothy Parker
The management's method of procedure is evidently to hire some well-known man to write the book, and then, as soon as it is written, to give it away to some deserving family, and go out and engage an assortment of specialty acts.

Dorothy Parker
Well, Aimee Semple McPherson has written a book. And were you to call it a little peach, you would not be so much as scratching its surface. It is the story of her life, and it is called In the Service of the King, which title is perhaps a bit dangerously suggestive of a romantic novel. It may be that this autobiography is set down in sincerity, frankness and simple effort. It may be, too, that the Statue of Liberty is situated in Lake Ontario.

Dorothy Parker
The musical comedies of the month are She's a Good Fellow and The Lady in Red, both of which owe their book and lyrics to Anne Caldwell—evidently a native of New York, judged by the casualness with which she rhymes teacher and reach a.

Dorothy Parker
This must be a gift book. That is to say a book, which you wouldn't take on any other terms.

Dorothy Parker
I'll think about something else. I'll just sit quietly. If I could sit still. If I could sit still, maybe I could read. Oh, all the books are about people who love each other, truly and sweetly. What do they want to write about that for? Don't they know it isn't true? Don't they know it's a lie, it's a God-damned lie? What do they have to tell about that for, when they know how it hurts?

Dorothy Parker
Writing a book for the Follies seems to be about as profitable an occupation as furnishing flannel petticoats for the showgirls.

Dorothy Parker
His books are exciting and powerful and — if I may filch the word from the booksy ones — pulsing.

Dorothy Parker
It's easier to write about those you hate — just as it's easier to criticize a bad play or a bad book.

Dorothy Parker
If this world were anything near what it should be there would be no more need of a Book Week than there would be a of a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

Dorothy Parker
I don't want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.

Dorothy Parker