Humor Quotes

Laughter as philosophy. The funniest, sharpest observations about the absurdity of being alive.

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"Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner."
Oscar Wilde
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"A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain."
Oscar Wilde
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"Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else."
Oscar Wilde
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"When people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."
Oscar Wilde
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"It is the duty of a gentleman to talk quite irrespectively of whether any one is listening or not."
Oscar Wilde
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"I can drink without eating, but I cannot eat without drinking."
Oscar Wilde
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"All arguments are to me obnoxious."
Oscar Wilde
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"I love the way you always manage to state the obvious with an air of discovery."
Oscar Wilde
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"I think the record speaks for itself."
Oscar Wilde
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"I never waste time on such people, for they are simply the chaff of society."
Oscar Wilde
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"I have never given anybody real cause for complaint."
Oscar Wilde
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"Nothing is so aggravating as calmness."
Oscar Wilde
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"I am bound to say I never knew what I was going to do till I had actually done it."
Oscar Wilde
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"I should fancy that the real objection to the lower classes is that they make one feel uncomfortable."
Oscar Wilde
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"One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation."
Oscar Wilde
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"I can think of nothing to say that would interest you."
Oscar Wilde
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"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but it would not fetch the same price in the market."
Oscar Wilde
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"I'm afraid I take no interest whatsoever in the social problems of the age."
Oscar Wilde
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"Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on."
James Joyce
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"Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone."
James Joyce
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"He sang dumb doggerel in a dead language that was no language."
James Joyce
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"Do you know what a pissabed is?"
James Joyce
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"All things are big with jest and to get at the heart of it you have only to laugh."
James Joyce
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"You are not angry with people when you laugh at them."
George Eliot
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"Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy which sustained him through temporary periods of joy."
William Butler Yeats
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"Hard to discern which of us is mad."
William Butler Yeats
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"I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation."
George Bernard Shaw
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"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."
George Bernard Shaw
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"England and America are two countries separated by a common language."
George Bernard Shaw
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"Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning."
George Bernard Shaw