Dorothy Parker Quotes

Wit is educated insolence.

Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things.

Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.

Irreverence is easy - what's hard is wit.

I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.

Wit, to be well defined, must be defined by wit itself; then it will be worth listening to.

After wisdom comes wit.

Sometimes a witticism has no truth behind it.

Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.

You shouldn't get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.

You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.

A lot of truth is said in jest.

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

Impropriety is the soul of wit.

Humor is the ultimate truth. If it’s not true, the joke is not funny.

You can't deny the truth. And that's what makes smart comedy so good.

Every witticism is an inexact thought; that which is perfectly true is imperfectly witty.

Humor wades across a brook, wit jumps over it.

"You are fairly smart," I said after a while. "You are fairly good at compliments," he answered.

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.

I like humor.

The things that make me laugh are considered smart or whatever, I guess. But stuff that's self-consciously intelligent or self-consciously hip or cool, that doesn't do it for me either. You just try to be funny.

It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.