Oscar Wilde Quotes About Humor

• Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Life, Happiness

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Wisdom, Witty

  Oscar Wilde “The Picture of Dorian Gray - and more”, Eighty Pence Books

• What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Leadership

  'Lady Windermere's Fan' (1892) act 3

• I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Clever, Hipster

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.153, Wordsworth Editions

• I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.50, Prestwick House Inc

• Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Mistake, Humor

  1891 The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch.19.

• Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Oscar Wilde (1947). “The Happy Prince”, p.16, New Line Publishing

• We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Positive

  Lady Windermere's Fan act 3 (1892)

• It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Witty, Humor

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

• Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Witty, Book

  Lady Windermere's Fan act 3 (1892)

• The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

  Oscar Wilde

  Positive, Funny Inspirational, Attitude

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.52, Oxford University Press on Demand

• I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Humor, Men

• The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.

  Oscar Wilde

  Time, Humor, Tragedy

• He has no enemies, but he is intensely disliked by his friends.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Friendship, Sarcastic

  "The Works of Oscar Wilde".

• There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Humor, Things In Life

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 1 (1891) See Behan 3; Modern Proverbs 71

• I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Business, Work

  "Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde".

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Friendship, Witty

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.175, Oxford University Press on Demand

• We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Humor, Two Nations

  The Canterville Ghost pt. 1 (1887) See George Bernard Shaw 58

• As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Humor, Punishment

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.50, Oscar Wilde

• I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

  Oscar Wilde

  Wise, Women, Future

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.136, GENERAL PRESS

• My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Book, Humor

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “The Importance of Being Earnest: Revised Edition”, p.76, Bloomsbury Publishing

• It is a very dangerous thing to know one’s friends.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Friendship, Humor

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.188, Courier Corporation

• I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

• Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Family, Father

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.233, Penguin

• Biography lends to death a new terror.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Writing, Humor

  Oscar Wilde (1947). “The Happy Prince”, p.16, New Line Publishing

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