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Funny Quotes - Page 265

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

Oscar Wilde (2015). “Essays and Lectures: Top Essays”, p.91, 谷月社

It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.

Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.161, Courier Corporation

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

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

Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.

Impressions of America (1906). The Newark (Ohio) Daily Advocate, 20 Apr. 1883, describes an afterdinner speech made by Wilde in Paris about his experiences in the United States: "The brightest and best of the many stories he related was one to the effect that at a ball in Leadville he saw a notice over the piano which read: 'Please don't shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.' "

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

Oliver Goldsmith (1794). “The Citizen of the World Or Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friend in the East”, p.33

How easy for those who do not bulge to not overindulge!

Ogden Nash (1954). “Many long years ago”

Women would rather be right than reasonable.

Ogden Nash (1941). “The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City publishing company, inc

Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1902). “The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort”

The French complain of everything, and always.

Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик