Dorothy Parker - Play Quotes

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This use of soldiers to make a play popular seems too much like taking an unfair advantage of the uniform—hitting below the Sam Browne belt, as it were.

Dorothy Parker
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
In fact, now that you've got me right down to it, the only thing I didn't like about The Barretts of Wimpole Street was the play.

Dorothy Parker
Mr. Hodge plays with his accustomed ease, even carrying the thing so far as to repat many of his lines with his eyes shut; and in a pretty spirit of reciprocity, many members of the audience sit through the play with their eyes shut.

Dorothy Parker
And you remember, Rabbi Wise has declared, in a heated moment, that our plays seem to be written for the hosiery buyers. If Dr. Wise had only witnessed our new summer reviews, he doubtless would have amended his statement to read by the hosiery buyers.

Dorothy Parker
The murdered man meets his death in an intriguing and novel manner, which the management asks its customers, as a personal favor, not to reveal to possible future audiences. It remains a secret, chummily shared by those that have seen the play and the four or five million who read it in its original form as a Saturday Evening Post story a year or so ago.

Dorothy Parker
There is one thing that appreciably eases the strain for the plays that arrive at this time of year, and that is that practically nothing is expected of them.

Dorothy Parker
Two things made The Dice of the Gods, another play about drugs, seem much better than it had any real right to seem. One was that Morphia had come first, and once you had seen Morphia, nothing seemd so very terrible to you.

Dorothy Parker
The play holds the season's record, thus far, with a run of four evening performances and one matinée. By an odd coincidence, it ran just five performances too many.

Dorothy Parker
So seeing that there is nothing further to say, I shall go right on talking about The Circle, thus proving that I am a born reviewer of plays.

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