Dorothy Parker Quotes About Wit

Quotes about: Wit

• You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.

  Dorothy Parker

  Dogma, Tricks, Wit

  Attributed to Dorothy Parker after her death in Robert E. Drennan "The Algonquin Wits" (p. 124), 1968.

• This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

  Dorothy Parker

  Book, Reading, Beer

  Quoted in The AlgonquinWits, ed. Robert E. Drennan (1968)

• There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

  Dorothy Parker

  Funny, Women, Distance

  Quoted in Paris Review, Summer 1956

• Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common.

  Dorothy Parker

  Heterosexuality Is, Diversity, Normal

• 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.

  Dorothy Parker

  Broken Heart, Mother, Home

  Dorothy Parker (1992). “The Sayings of Dorothy Parker”, Duckbacks

• [To the British actor who annoyed her by repeated references to his busy 'shedule':] I think you're full of skit.

  Dorothy Parker

  Thinking, Annoyed, Actors

• [On being told their loquacious, domineering host was 'outspoken':] By whom?

  Dorothy Parker

  Host, Outspoken, Wit

• 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.

  Dorothy Parker

  Distance, Sick, Unhappy

  Quoted in Paris Review, Summer 1956

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