“La cura para el aburrimiento es la curiosidad. No existe cura para la curiosidad.”
Variante: La cura para el aburrimiento es la curiosidad. Para la curiosidad no existe cura.
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Frases célebres de Dorothy Parker
“A un hombre sólo le pido tres cosas: que sea guapo, implacable y estúpido.”
Fuente: [Red] (2008), p. 40.
“Cualquier mujer que aspire a comportarse como un hombre, seguro que carece de ambición.”
Fuente: [Albaigès Olivart] (1997), p. 458.
Dorothy Parker Frases y Citas
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Excuse My Dust
Epitafio en la lápida de su tumba en Baltimore.
Fuente: Marion Meade The Last Days of Dorothy Parker: The Extraordinary Lives of Dorothy https://books.google.es/books?isbn=1101627212; ed. 2014.
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“La mujer y el elefante nunca olvidan.”
Fuente: [Albaigès Olivart] (1997), p. 485.
“Es un alivio encontrar en un libro de leyes o reglas una que nunca te afectará.”
Fuente: [Albaigès Olivart] (1997), p. 167.
Fuente: Citado por Darlene Criss en The Isolated M.
“Esa chica sabe hablar dieciocho idiomas, pero no sabe decir no en ninguno de ellos.”
Fuente: [Señor] (1997), p. 315.
“El dinero de Hollywood no es dinero. Es nieve congelada, se funde en tu mano.”
Fuente: [Albaigès Olivart] (1997), p. 227.
Fuente: Recogido por Malcolm Cowley en Writers at Work, 1958.
Dorothy Parker: Frases en inglés
Fuente: "The Flaw in Paganism" in Death and Taxes (1931)
Fuente: The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918–1923 (2014) https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25758762M/Dorothy_Parker_Complete_Broadway_1918-1923, Chapter 6: 1923
“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”
Man and the Gospel (1865) by Thomas Guthrie "and you may know how little God thinks of money by observing on what bad and contemptible characters he often bestows it."
“We may see the small Value God has for Riches, by the People he gives them to.” -- Alexander Pope (1727).
Misattributed
Variante: If you want to know what the Lord God thinks of money, just look at those to whom he gives it.
“Too fucking busy, and vice versa.”
Response to an editor pressuring her for overdue work, as quoted in The Unimportance of Being Oscar (1968) by Oscar Levant, p. 89
“I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.”
Variante: I've never been a millionaire but I know I'd be just darling at it.
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I wish I could drink like a lady.
“Two or three,” at the most.
But two, and I’m under the table—
And three, I'm under the host.
The Harlequin, Volume 2, 1959, University of Virginia (page ? http://books.google.com/books?id=zdFKAAAAYAAJ&q=%22under+the+table%22+%22under+the+host%22)
Perhaps attributed due to “One more drink and I'd have been under the host.” (see above).
“ Martini Madness: Dorothy Parker didn’t write the famous quatrain about martinis that’s always attributed to her. http://www.slate.com/articles/life/drink/features/2013/martini_madness_tournament/sweet_16/dorothy_parker_martini_poem_why_the_attribution_is_spurious.html”, Troy Patterson, Slate, April 8, 2013
Misattributed
Variante: One martini. Two at the most. Three I'm under the table, four I'm under the host!
Fuente: The Collected Dorothy Parker
"If the doorbell rang in her apartment, she would say, 'What fresh hell can this be?' — and it wasn't funny; she meant it." You might as well live: the life and times of Dorothy Parker, John Keats (Simon Schuster, 1970, p124). Often quoted as "What fresh hell is this?" as in the title of the 1987 biography by Marion Meade, "Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?".
Variante: What fresh hell can this be?
Fuente: The Portable Dorothy Parker
16 August 1925
Fuente: Enough Rope (1926)
“Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.”
"But the One on the Right" in The New Yorker (1929)
Contexto: That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
“You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.”
Parker's answer when asked to use the word horticulture during a game of Can-You-Give-Me-A-Sentence?, as quoted in You Might as well Live by John Keats (1970).
Fuente: You Might as Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker
“Brevity is the soul of lingerie.”
Caption written for Vogue 1916
Our Mrs Parker (1934)
Fuente: While Rome Burns
“That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say No in any of them.”
A similar line was later used by Ira Gershwin in "The Saga of Jenny" in Lady in the Dark (1942): "In 27 languages she couldn't say no."
Our Mrs Parker (1934)
Fuente: While Rome Burns