Quotes About Humour By Oscar Wilde

#1. Terry Kitchen said that the only moments he ever experienced as non-epiphanies, when God left him alone, were those following sex and the two times he took heroin.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#2. You realize how selfish you were to wish that your wife survived you. It was your selfishness that made you deny that your wife had a serious illness.

Kyung-Sook Shin

#3. You quoted Oscar Wilde." I smiled.
Hayden laughed. "Yeah, that was, like, the height of geekdom."
"No. It was kind of cool.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#4. LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.
MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

Oscar Wilde

#5. Food is not your remedy for problems. Food is not going to change your life. If you are lonely, food is not going to be your company. If you are sad, food is not going to give you solace.

Jean Nidetch

#6. I like every single actor or actress in the world, because we never know what the conditions are like when they are working. I give everyone the benefit of the doubt and root for them like a psychotic sports fan.

Judd Nelson

#7. Real results will emerge when we realize the power of combined individual actions and voices to effect change.

Achim Steiner

#8. Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things.
That is exactly what things were originally made for.

Oscar Wilde

#9. This great purple butterfly,
In the prison of my hands,
Has a learning in his eye
Not a poor fool understands.

William Butler Yeats

#10. I should fancy, however, that murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

Oscar Wilde

#11. Who had a large wardrobe of Humour's cast-off clothes

Oscar Wilde

#12. The Nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13. Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman

Oscar Wilde

#14. Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

Oscar Wilde

#15. People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.

Oscar Wilde

#16. I'm too old to know everything

Oscar Wilde

#17. We are specially designed to appeal to the sense of humour.

Oscar Wilde

#18. Lady Bracknell, I hate to seem inquisitive, but would you kindly inform me who I am?

Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde

#20. For myself, the only immortality I desire is to invent a new sauce.

Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde

#22. Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.

Oscar Wilde

#23. A lady decidedly. Fast? perhaps. Original? undoubtedly. Worth knowing? rather.

George Egerton

#24. The guy I read and I love is Irvin Yalom.

Jason Clarke

#25. I'm a practical person. Most fashion people live in the clouds, and they're full of it. I live like a human being - or, I try to - and I have to be intelligent; I have to be practical. I'm a great believer in common sense, and the older I get, I see that common sense is not that common.

Iris Apfel