DOROTHY PARKER (1893-1967)

Dorothy Parker is best remembered for her wit. She was a poet, theatre critic, screenwriter and short-story writer. Sharing a bit of her here in the hopes you'll enjoy her enough to read more of this Algonquin Roundtable member ..... Rennie

In 1925, Harold Ross was struggling to keep The New Yorker magazine alive with a tiny, inexperienced staff and an office with one typewriter.

Running into Dorothy, Ross said, "I thought you were coming into the office to write a piece last week. What happened?" Dorothy replied, "Somebody was using the pencil."

........ "Brevity is the soul of lingerie."

"I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I'm under the table,
After four I'm under my host!"

---- In the street once Dorothy approached a taxi.
"I'm engaged," the cabbie said.
"Then be happy," she told him.

Wasn't the Yale prom wonderful?
"If all the girls in attendance were laid end to end,"
she said, "I wouldn't be at all surprised."

........ "Look at him, a rhinestone in the rough."

"You know, that woman speaks 18 languages,
and she can't say "no" in any of them."

........ "Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses."

"He is beyond question a writer of power; and his power lies in his ability to make sex so thoroughly, graphically and aggressively unattractive that one is fairly shaken to ponder how little one has been missing."