“Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.”

— Dorothy Parker, Interview, The Paris Review (Summer 1956)

About Dorothy Parker

American poet, critic and satirist, known for sharp wit and for the verse collection 'Enough Rope' (1926).

“Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.”

“Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart.”

“I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me.”

“To laugh at men of sense is the privilege of fools.”

“Wit is cultured insolence.”

“A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.”

“The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.”

“Humor is the most engaging cowardice.”

“At bottom the world isn't a joke.”