Dorothy Parker

 

This caricature of Dorothy Parker appears in Peggy Bacon's 1934 book Off With Their Heads! Bacon describes Parker this way:

Dorothy Parker 

Wild muss of dark hair, charging up and away at back and cascading over face in a panic-stricken style. Round, eager eyes wide open, bulgy, slightly mad, full of swift simulation. Pert lips of specious sweetness. Chic, bright fluttering head perched on a sluggish, opulent body like a quick live bird on a rooted tree. Artful, atmospheric, volatile, mundane. 

Peggy Bacon

Miss Parker, of course, is the author of numerous  poems and bon mots.

“I like to have a martini,

Two at the very most.

After three I'm under the table,

after four I'm under my host.”

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“Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.”
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“You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.”
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“Indian Summer

In youth, it was a way I had,

To do my best to please.

And change, with every passing lad

To suit his theories.

But now I know the things I know

And do the things I do,

And if you do not like me so,

To hell, my love, with you.”