Dorothy Parker Quotes About Wit
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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
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I don't want to be classed as a humorist. It makes me feel guilty. I've never read a good tough quotable female humorist, and I never was one myself. I couldn't do it. A "smartcracker" they called me, and that makes me sick and unhappy. There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
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[On being told their loquacious, domineering host was 'outspoken':] By whom?
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For this my mother wrapped me warm, And called me home against the storm, And coaxed my infant nights to quiet, And gave me roughage in my diet, And tucked me in my bed at eight, And clipped my hair, and marked my weight, And watched me as I sat and stood: That I might grow to womanhood To hear a whistle and drop my wits And break my heart to clattering bits.
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You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.
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There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
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[To the British actor who annoyed her by repeated references to his busy 'shedule':] I think you're full of skit.
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Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common.
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