Quote #23

Hangman: 'Have you any last wish?' WC: 'Yes, I'd like to see Paris before I die . . . Philadelphia will do.' (from My Little Chickadee)

More from W. C. Fields

  1. (singing) I'd rather have two girls at twenty-one each, than one girl at forty-two.
  2. Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
  3. I don't drink water. Fish poop in it.
  4. I never wanted to be an actor, I wanted to be a drunk. Now I'm neither, but nobody can tell the difference.
  5. Fields reloading!
  6. How well I remember my first encounter with The Devil's Brew. I happened to stumble across a case of bourbon- and went right on stumbling f…
  7. Comedy is a serious business. A serious business with only one purpose- to make people laugh.
  8. I ad lib most of my dialogue. If I did remember my lines, it would be too bad for me.

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