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Oscar Wilde Quotes about Funny - Page 3

All Oscar Wilde Quotes Achievement Acting Affection Age Aging Ambition Anger Appearance Appreciation Arguing Art Atheism Atmosphere Attitude Authority Beauty Beer Being Happy Being Real Being Single Being Yourself Belief Betrayal Blame Break Up Business Censorship Change Chaos Character Charity Children Christ Church College Common Sense Community Conformity Conscience Consciousness Cooking Country Courage Creativity Crime Criticism Critics Culture Curiosity Death Deception Defeat Desire Destiny Dignity Disappointment Doubt Drama Drinking Drunkenness Duty Dying Earth Eating Education Environment Ethics Evil Exercise Failing Failure Faith Falling In Love Family Fashion Fear Feelings Fidelity Fighting Flirting Food Forgiveness Friends Friendship Funny quotes Future Genius Giving Gold Goodness Gossip Graduation Gratitude Greatness Greek Grief Growing Old Growth Happiness Hard Work Harmony Hate Hatred Heart Heartbreak Heaven Hell Hilarious History Home Honesty Hope Horror House Human Nature Humanity Hurt Husband Hypocrisy Ignorance Imagination Imitation Impulse Individualism Individuality Innocence Inspiration Inspirational Inspiring Integrity Intelligence Irony Journalism Joy Judgement Judging Kissing Knowledge Language Laughter Leadership Learning Liars Liberty Life Life And Love Listening Literature Live Life Logic Loss Lost Love Love Love Life Luck Lust Lying Madness Mankind Manners Marriage Mask Maturity Mediocrity Memories Moderation Money Moon Morality Morning Motivational Mourning Music Nature Oblivion Opportunity Optimism Pain Passion Past Peace Perception Perfection Personality Perspective Pessimism Philosophy Pleasure Poetry Positive Poverty Prayer Prejudice Progress Purpose Quality Rage Reading Reality Rebellion Regret Rejection Religion Reputation Respect Risk Romance Romantic Love Romanticism Running Sacrifice Sad Sadness Sarcasm School Science Selfishness Silence Simplicity Sin Sincerity Sleep Society Solitude Sorrow Soul Spring Struggle Study Stupidity Style Success Suffering Summer Survival Sympathy Talent Tea Teaching Temptation Terror Theatre Time Tragedy Train Travel Truth Ugliness Understanding Utopia Values Virtue Vision Waiting Wall War Water Weakness Wife Wine Winning Winter Wisdom Wit Work Worship Writing Yoga Youth

Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.

Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.

Funny, Sarcastic, Wonderful

Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.194, Penguin

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

Funny, Sarcastic, Anger

Oscar Wilde (1947). “The Happy Prince”, p.16, New Line Publishing

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

Inspirational, Funny, Travel

Oscar Wilde (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.50, Prestwick House Inc

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Love, Funny, Witty

Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.39, Wordsworth Editions

Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.

Funny, Sarcasm, Piano Music

Impressions of America (1906). The Newark (Ohio) Daily Advocate, 20 Apr. 1883, describes an afterdinner speech made by Wilde in Paris about his experiences in the United States: "The brightest and best of the many stories he related was one to the effect that at a ball in Leadville he saw a notice over the piano which read: 'Please don't shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.' "

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

Funny, Beauty, Beautiful

'The Picture of Dorian Gray' (1891) ch. 17

Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.

Funny, Friendship, Sarcastic

Oscar Wilde, Nicholas Frankel (2011). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition”, p.86, Harvard University Press

Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

Funny, Sarcastic, Independent Women

Oscar Wilde (2014). “A Woman of No Importance”, p.50, Trajectory Inc

I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.

Funny, Men, People

If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.

Funny, Littles, Importance Of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde (2016). “The Importance of Being Earnest: Revised Edition”, p.58, Bloomsbury Publishing

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.

Funny, Husband, Women

The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 15 (1891)

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

Funny, Witty, Sarcasm

'The Critic as Artist' pt. 2 in 'Intentions' (1891)

Too much work, and no vacation, Deserves at least a small libation. So hail! my friends, and raise your glasses, Work's the curse of the drinking classes.

Funny, Drinking, Vacation

He has no enemies, but he is intensely disliked by his friends.

Funny, Friendship, Sarcastic

"The Works of Oscar Wilde".

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

Inspirational, Funny, Life

Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Inspirational, Funny, Sarcastic

The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 1 (1891)

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

1895 Mrs Cheveley speaking. An Ideal Husband, act 3.

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.

Funny, Sarcastic, Optimism

Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.488, Wordsworth Editions

Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.

Funny, Trust, Being Yourself

Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.64, Courier Corporation

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Inspirational, Funny, Leadership

'Lady Windermere's Fan' (1892) act 3

As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted.

Funny, Humor, Punishment

Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.50, Oscar Wilde

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

Funny, Sarcastic, Writing

"The Soul of Man Under Socialism" (1891)

Everything in moderation, including moderation.

Inspirational, Funny, Food

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

Love, Funny, Sarcastic

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.819, GENERAL PRESS

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Funny, Humor, Things In Life

The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 1 (1891) See Behan 3; Modern Proverbs 71

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