Quotes & Sayings About Humour By Oscar Wilde

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That is exactly what things were originally made for.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

For myself, the only immortality I desire is to invent a new sauce. — Oscar Wilde

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

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

The only candidate to really escape Trump's wrath has been Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, and that's because Cruz has spent the entire political season nuzzling Trump's ankles, praising the Donald like a lovesick cellmate. The Texas senator, whose rhetorical schtick is big doses of Tea Party crazy (his best line was that Obama wanted to bring "expanded Medicaid" to ISIS) — Matt Taibbi

Who had a large wardrobe of Humour's cast-off clothes — Oscar Wilde

We are specially designed to appeal to the sense of humour. — Oscar Wilde

I'm too old to know everything — Oscar Wilde

Having true compassion for people isn't about the words that are spoken and the actions that are done. Having true compassion is an attitude from the heart that can't be faked. — Anna M. Aquino

Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities. — Oscar Wilde

There are two things you don't want to see being made - sausage and legislation. — Otto Von Bismarck

Mysteries are not riddles. Mysteries are places to go with your mind. You go into mysteries. — Frederick Lenz

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

Full employment - very full employment; long, weary, back-breaking employment - is characteristic of precisely the nations that are most retarded industrially. — Henry Hazlitt

Lady Bracknell, I hate to seem inquisitive, but would you kindly inform me who I am? — Oscar Wilde

What does a life of total dedication to truth mean? It means, first of all, a life of continuous and never-ending stringent self-examination. We know the world only through our relationship to it. Therefore, to know the world, we must not only examine it but we must simultaneously examine the examiner. — M. Scott Peck

In my cowardice I became at once a man, and did what all we grown men do when face to face with suffering and injustice; I preferred not to see them — Marcel Proust

Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping. — Oscar Wilde

Only a fool conquers when he might instead seduce. — Karen Marie Moning

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

I thought of happy endings, how novelists usually flinched. To admit your characters are doomed means you are too. — Darcey Steinke

My religion consists of laughing at myself. My motto is this: As long as there is a me, there is a reason to laugh out loud! — C. JoyBell C.

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

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

Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman — Oscar Wilde