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Oscar Wilde Quotes about Funny - Page 6

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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

Funny, Witty, Book

Lady Windermere's Fan act 3 (1892)

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

Funny, Beauty, Beautiful

Oscar Wilde (2015). “Essays and Lectures: Top Essays”, p.91, 谷月社

It is a very dangerous thing to know one’s friends.

Funny, Friendship, Humor

Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.188, Courier Corporation

The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Funny, Sarcastic, Dream

Oscar Wilde (2012). “Epigrams”, p.102, BoD – Books on Demand

I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures.

Funny, Sarcastic, Inspiration

His reason for not playing cricket. Quoted in Bloomsbury Thematic Dictionary of Quotations (1988)

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.

Funny, Truth, Gossip

A Woman of No Importance act 1 (1893)

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.

Funny, Anniversary, Sweet

Oscar Wilde (2016). “A Critic in Pall Mall”, p.227, Oscar Wilde

The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance.

Funny, Money, Extravagance

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.187, Wordsworth Editions

I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.

Funny, Music, People

1891 The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch.4.

The English have a miraculous power of turning wine into water.

Funny, Sarcastic, Wine

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.123, Wordsworth Editions

Give me the luxuries and I can dispense with the necessities.

Funny, Witty, Luxury

Oscar Wilde (1999). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, Holt McDougal

A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.

Funny, Humor, Punishment

Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1649, Delphi Classics

It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing

Funny, Women, Stupid

Oscar Wilde (2014). “Wilde Complete Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest; A Woman of No Importance; Salome; The Duchess of Padua; Vera, or the Nihilists; A Florentine Tragedy; La Sainte Courtisane”, p.61, Bloomsbury Publishing

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

Inspirational, Funny, Witty

Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.3, Courier Corporation

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

Funny, Sarcastic, Money

"Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young" (1894)

Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that, when I ask for a watercress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.

Funny, Sarcastic, Mean

Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them?

Funny, Sarcastic, Order

'The Importance of Being Earnest' (1895) act 1

Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.

Funny, Sarcastic, People

Oscar Wilde (2015). “An Ideal Husband”, p.51, Sheba Blake Publishing

However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.

Funny, Sarcastic, Nice

Oscar Wilde (2015). “An Ideal Husband”, p.68, Oscar Wilde

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