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Oscar Wilde Quotes about Funny - Page 4

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

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

Love, Funny, Relationship

Oscar Wilde (2010). “Epigrams & Aphorisms”, p.56, BoD – Books on Demand

Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!

Funny, Marriage, Married

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

Funny, Witty, Writing

Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.1001, Wordsworth Editions

Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.

Funny, Marriage, Wedding

Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Story of a Fashionable Young Man Who Sells His Soul for Eternal Youth and Beauty (Beloved Books Edition)”, p.37, Lulu Press, Inc

I can resist everything except temptation.

Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

Lady Windermere's Fan act 1 (1892) See Balzac 1; Clementina Graham 1; Mae West 19; Wilde 25

I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.

Funny, Husband, Men

Oscar Wilde (2016). “The Importance of Being Earnest: Revised Edition”, p.26, Bloomsbury Publishing

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Funny, Birthday, Friends

1895 Lady Bracknell. The Importance of Being Earnest, act 3.

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

Funny, Sarcastic, Breakfast Food

Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.15, Oscar Wilde

He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.

Funny, Sarcastic, Eye

Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.266, Wordsworth Editions

Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

Funny, Mistake, Humor

1891 The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch.19.

I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

Funny, Sarcastic, New Relationship

Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.27, Wordsworth Editions

Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.

Funny, Beautiful, Jealousy

When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand.

Funny, Husband, Men

Oscar Wilde, Alyssa Harad (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Funny, Friendship, Witty

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.175, Oxford University Press on Demand

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

Funny, Sarcastic, Discovery

Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.30, Wordsworth Editions

I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.

Funny, Business, Work

"Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde".

To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.

Funny, Sarcastic, Political

Oscar Wilde “The Picture of Dorian Gray - and more”, Eighty Pence Books

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

Funny, Witty, Principles

Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (more than 150 Works)”, p.1016, e-artnow

It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously

Funny, Witty, Humor

Oscar Wilde (2014). “A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

Funny, Truth, Inspiration

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.197, Wordsworth Editions

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

Funny, Marriage, Sarcastic

Oscar Wilde (2013). “Lady Windermere's Fan”, p.55, Courier Corporation

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

Funny, New Year, Holiday

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

Funny, Family, Sarcastic

The Importance of Being Earnest act 1 (1895)

Genius is born-not paid

Funny, Witty, Genius

Oscar Wilde, Alvin Redman (1959). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.202, Courier Corporation

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.

Love, Funny, Humorous

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.212, Diversion Books

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