Dorothy Parker Quote

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“Excuse my dust.”

- Dorothy Parker

Source/Notes: Her proposed epitaph for herself, quoted in Vanity Fair (June 1925)

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“And she had It. It, hell; she had Those.”

- Dorothy Parker

Source/Notes: Regarding a character in Elinor Glyn's novel It; in her review, Madame Glyn Lectures on 'It,' with Illustrations in The New Yorker (1927-11-26)

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

- Dorothy Parker

Source/Notes: New Yorker (4 February 1928)

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“And it is that word 'hummy,' my darlings, that marks the first place in The House at Pooh Corner at which Tonstant Weader fwowed up.”

- Dorothy Parker

Source/Notes: Her Constant Reader book review of The House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne, in The New Yorker (20 October 1928)

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“That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.”

- Dorothy Parker

Source/Notes: But the One on the Right in The New Yorker (1929)

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“A lady... with all the poise of the Sphinx though but little of her mystery.”

- Dorothy Parker

Source/Notes: Concerning a child actress in A. A. Milne's play Give Me Yesterday; in her review of same, Just Around Pooh Corner in The New Yorker (14 March 1931)

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“The House Beautiful is, for me, the play lousy.”

- Dorothy Parker

Source/Notes: Review of The House Beautiful by Channing Pollock, New Yorker (21 March 1931)

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“Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die!”

- Dorothy Parker

Source/Notes: The Flaw in Paganism in Death and Taxes (1931)

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“The ones I like... are cheque and enclosed.”

- Dorothy Parker

Source/Notes: On the most beautiful words in the English language, as quoted in The New York Herald Tribune (12 December 1932)