"Four be the things I'd be better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt." -- Dorothy Parker, "Inventory" (1937) "Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses." -- Dorothy Parker, "News Item" (1937) "By the time you say you're his Shivering and sighing And he vows his passion is Infinite, undying -- Lady, make a note of this: One of you is lying." -- Dorothy Parker, "Unfortunate Coincidence" (1937) "She ran the whole gamut of emotions from A to B." -- Dorothy Parker, referring to a Broadway première by Katherine Hepburn in 1933. Attributed. "How do they know?" -- Dorothy Parker, on being told that President Calvin Coolidge had died (1933) "If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one should be the least surprised." -- Dorothy Parker, quoted in "Our Mrs. Parker" in While Rome Burns (Alexander Woollcott, 1934) "You know she speaks eighteen languages. And she can't say 'No' in any of them." -- Dorothy Parker, quoted in "Our Mrs. Parker" in While Rome Burns (Alexander Woollcott, 1934) "Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you." -- Dorothy Parker, on the arrival of a baby, quoted in "Our Mrs. Parker" in While Rome Burns (Alexander Woollcott, 1934) "This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force." -- Dorothy Parker, book review "Pearls before swine." -- Dorothy Parker, to Clare Booth Luce, who, going through a door with her, had said: "Age before beauty."

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