Pic of Dorothy Parker with the quote: I hate almost all rich people, but I think I'd be darling at it. --Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Parker #BonMots

Pic of Dorothy Parker with the quote: This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it. --Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Parker #BonMots

Pic of Dorothy Parker with the quote: There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words. -- Dorothy Parker, from The Paris Review, 1956

Dorothy Parker #BonMots

#AnthonyPowellTogether A Soldier's Art p.208 #BonMots #Cheesed #Nibs
1. Cheesed off is to be annoyed, bored or disappointed, Br. informal.
2. His/her Nibs- n. a person in authority, especially one who is demanding and tyrannical; often facetious~ His nibs wants fresh strawberries in December.

#IBES 2025 ist das #Dschungelcamp der #Sprichwortverdreher … „der getretene Hund der bellt“ und „der Kapitän der als letzter das sinkende Flugzeug verlässt“ … sind nur 2 der vielen #Bonmots
#InfluenzaSchwarmIntellenz halt

life finds a way . . .
#photography #abstract #bonmots

Stumbled upon this gem of a story re: #DorothyParker, possibly apocryphal, of her sneaking off from a writing gig at MGM for a romantic tryst, then writing a note to the studio: “I can only offer the explanation that I was too fucking busy and vice versa.” #FilmSky #bonmots