16 Oscar Wilde Quotes on Humor

Oscar Wilde quotes on humor

4. Over the piano was printed a notice: Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.

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

103. To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

107. I can resist everything . . . except child pornography. Sweet, sweet child pornography.

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

109. Often quoted as: Life is far too important to be taken seriously.

118. 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.

122. It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

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

169. 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.

179. Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

180. I love talking about nothing, father. It is the only thing I know anything about.

220. We are specially designed to appeal to the sense of humour.

221. We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.

230. Buck up and be jolly, my dear lady! Stillbirth is a sign that God has a sense of humour!

234. I have nothing to declare except my Genius.