“One meritricious b!tch talking about another.”
[ul][SUP]FROM AN ARTICLE ON KITTY KELLY’S BOOK ABOUT NANCY REAGAN[/ul][/SUP]
“He chews more than he bites off.”
[ul][sup]A DESCRIPTION OF HENRY JAMES’ WRITING STYLE[/ul][/sup]
Anyone have some more of these tasty little barbs?
Dorothy Parker was a master (mistress?)
In a 1933 review of the play “The Lake” starring Katherine Hepburn: “Miss Hepburn runs the gamut of emotions from A to B”
At a party:
Hostess : “Must you leave so earty”
Parker: “No, it’s purely a matter of choice”
About a book : “This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force”
On hearing that President Coolidge had died: “How could they tell?”
In 1925, the publisher was struggling to keep The New Yorker magazine alive with a tiny, inexperienced staff and an office with one typewriter. Running into Parker, the publisher said, “I thought you were coming into the office to write a piece last week. What happened?”
Parker replied, “Somebody was using the pencil.”
Q: Wasn’t the Yale prom wonderful?
Parker said: “If all the girls in attendance were laid end to end,” she said, “I wouldn’t be at all surprised.”
Of the play “The House Beautiful”: “The House Beautiful is The Play Lousy.”
“… actor-shaped celebrities”
–Entertainment Weekly review of “My Boss’ Daughter,” describing Ashton Krutcher and Tara Reid
“A plumber’s vision of Cleopatra.”
[ul][sup]WC FIELDS DESCRIBING MAE WEST[/ul][/SUP]
“His greatest role.”
[ul][sup]A COMMENT ON RONALD REAGAN’S PRESIDENCY[/sup][/ul]
“He doesn’t bother with acting, he just points his suit at people”
-Review of Robert Michum in “Winds of War”