Dorothy Parker Zitate

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„Heterosexualität ist nicht normal, es ist nur üblich.“

„Ich mag einen Martini haben,
Höchstens zwei.
Nach drei bin ich unter dem Tisch,
Nach vier bin ich unter meinem Gastgeber.“

„Wenn Sie wissen möchten, was Gott von Geld hält, schauen Sie sich einfach die Menschen an, denen er es gegeben hat.“

„Rasiermesser schmerzen dich,
Flüsse sind feucht,
Säuren färben dich,
Und Drogen verursachen Krämpfe.
Waffen sind nicht erlaubt,
Schlingen geben,
Gas riecht schrecklich.
Du könntest genauso gut leben.“

„Du kannst saufen, tanzen, lügen und lachen,
die ganze Nacht durch Liebe machen
Eigentlich sind wir morgen tot!
Doch damit hat's leider wohl keine Not.“

„Schau mich nicht so an.“

„Ich weiß nicht viel darüber, ein Millionär zu sein, aber ich wette, ich würde es lieben.“

„Schönheit ist nur hauttief, aber Hässlichkeit geht bis auf die Knochen.“

„Das war nicht einfach schrecklich. Das war ganz glamourös schrecklich. Das war schrecklich mit Rosinen drin.“

“Why is it no one sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect rose.”

“All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted.”

“I'll be the way I was when I first met him. Then maybe he'll like me again. I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.”

“I wish, I wish I were a poisonous bacterium.”

“Trapped like a trap in a trap”

“Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart.”

“Never complain, never explain.”

“Excuse my dust.”

“Prince or commoner, tenor or bass,
Painter or plumber or never-do-well,
Do me a favor and shut your face -
Poets alone should kiss and tell.”

“This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.”

“If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the fact that it's the best you can do that kills you.”

“Now, look, baby, 'Union' is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.”

“Once, when I was young and true.
Someone left me sad -
Broke my brittle heart in two;
And that is very bad.

Love is for unlucky folk,
Love is but a curse.
Once there was a heart I broke;
And that, I think, is worse.”

“There was a reason for the cost of those perfectly plain black dresses.”

“Travel, trouble, music, art, a kiss, a frock, a rhyme --
I never said they feed my heart, but still they pass my time.”

“It costs me never a stab nor squirm

To tread by chance upon a worm.

"Aha, my little dear," I say,

"Your clan will pay me back some day."”

“Ah, clear they see and true they say
That one shall weep, and one shall stray”

“They say of me, and so they should,
It's doubtful if I come to good.”

“She can sit up and beg, and
she can give her paw —
I don't say she will, but she can.”

“Friends come and go but I wouldn't have thought you'd be one of them”

“Hold your pen and spare your voice.”

“Now to me, Edith looks like something that would eat her young.”

“How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack.”

“For a few minutes, everything is so cute that the mind reels…. And then, believe it or not, things get worse. So I shot myself.”

“I find her anecdotes more efficacious than sheep-counting, rain on a tin roof, or alanol tablets…. you will find me and Morpheus, off in a corner, necking.”

“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.”

“Oh, both my shoes are shiny new,
And pristine is my hat
My dress is 1922…
My life is all like that.”

“tomorrow's gone-we'll have tonight!”

“I can’t write five words but that I change seven.”