Oscar Wilde Quotes on Humor
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Over the piano was printed a notice: Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.
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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
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To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
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I can resist everything . . . except child pornography. Sweet, sweet child pornography.
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.
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Often quoted as: Life is far too important to be taken seriously.
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I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.
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It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
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I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.
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Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One must eat muffins quite calmly, it is the only way to eat them.
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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
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I love talking about nothing, father. It is the only thing I know anything about.
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We are specially designed to appeal to the sense of humour.
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We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
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Buck up and be jolly, my dear lady! Stillbirth is a sign that God has a sense of humour!
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I have nothing to declare except my Genius.