Oscar Wilde Quotes About Funny
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A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
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The English have a miraculous power of turning wine into water.
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It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.
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I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.
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If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
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By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
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The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance.
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To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.
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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
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Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
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I don't recognize you - I've changed a lot.
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Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.
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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
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Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
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If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
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Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!
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On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
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When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
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The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.
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I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.
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It is a very dangerous thing to know one’s friends.
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It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.
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It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously
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