Dorothy Rothschild Parker
Dorothy Rothschild Parker
Dorothy Parkerwas an American poet, short story writer, critic, and satirist, best known for her wit, wisecracks and eye for 20th-century urban foibles...
yorkers
As only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night.
gentle mine room sit writers wrote
All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me.
autumn hate summer
Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.
scratch
Scratch an actor and you'll find an actress.
emotions runs
She (Katherine Hepburn) runs the gamut of emotions from A to B
barely few hat lay room small
It's a small apartment, I've barely enough room to lay my hat and a few friends.
attended game girls laid surprised
If all the girls who attended the Harvard-Yale game were laid end to end, I wouldn't be surprised
ease heart man satin
Where's the man could ease a heart / Like a satin gown?