The Great Oscar Wilde
” . . . there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.” – The Importance of Being Earnest
“She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.” – The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.” – The Picture of Dorian Gray
“I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.” – An Ideal Husband
Humorous Literary Quotes
“Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.” – Agnes Repplier
“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.” – Oscar Wilde
“I can resist everything except temptation.” – Oscar Wilde
“The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.” – GK Chesterton
Groucho Marx Quotes
“From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.”
“Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others.”
“My mother loved children–she would have given anything if I had been one.”
“Please accept my resignation. I don’t care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.”
Famous Quotes by Mark Twain
Do something every day that you don’t want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.