Happy Valentine's Day, Dorothy Parker fans!

[elleng]

"Theory"
by Dorothy Parker
...
Into love and out again,
Thus I went, and thus I go.
Spare your voice, and hold your pen—
Well and bitterly I know
All the songs were ever sung,
All the words were ever said;
Could it be, when I was young,
Some one dropped me on my head?

[arthritisR_US]

1. LOL..luv it! Happy Valentine's to you too :)

[LiberalEsto]

2. One perfect...

One Perfect Rose

A single flow'r he sent me, since we met.
All tenderly his messenger he chose;
Deep-hearted, pure, with scented dew still wet -
One perfect rose.

I knew the language of the floweret;
'My fragile leaves,' it said, 'his heart enclose.'
Love long has taken for his amulet
One perfect rose.

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

Dorothy Parker

[elleng]

4. Oh, you remembered!

[grilled onions]

3. A Wonderful Quote That Can Fit So Many Situations

"What fresh Hell is this?" There were so many of her era that were sharp tongued, sharp witted and were often condemned for their honesty. Their comments about today and its' problems would be delicious and right on target.

[pscot]

5. You can lead a horticulture

but you can't make her think.

Parker had a hard edge to her. She once visited Hearst Castle and after taking the tour she wrote in the guest book:
On my honor I saw a madonna
Standing in a niche
Above the door of the private whore
of the world's worst son-of-a-bitch.

[kwassa]

6. I remember Parker's review of Katherine Hepburn's early theatrical performance.

something along the lines of "She displayed the entire gamut of emotions from A to B".

[seabeyond]

7. ha ha. lol. nt

[shenmue]

8. I loves me some Dorothy Parker

Ah, life is a glorious cycle of song
A medley of extemporanea
And love is a thing that can never go wrong
And I am Marie of Romania.

[elleng]

10. I am Marie of Romania!!!

[El_Johns]

9. One of my favorites:

Chant For Dark Hours


Some men, some men
Cannot pass a
Book shop.
(Lady, make your mind up, and wait your life away.)


Some men, some men
Cannot pass a
Crap game.
(He said he'd come at moonrise, and here's another day!)


Some men, some men
Cannot pass a
Bar-room.
(Wait about, and hang about, and that's the way it goes.)


Some men, some men
Cannot pass a
Woman.
(Heaven never send me another one of those!)


Some men, some men
Cannot pass a
Golf course.
(Read a book, and sew a seam, and slumber if you can.)


Some men, some men
Cannot pass a
Haberdasher's.
(All your life you wait around for some damn man!)

[elleng]

11. some damn man!!!