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
The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
'A Woman of No Importance' (1893) act 1
'The Importance of Being Earnest' (1895) act 2
We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
The Canterville Ghost pt. 1 (1887) See George Bernard Shaw 58
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
"Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde".
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.' "
Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Medical Essays”, p.203, Reprint Services Corporation
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
Ogden Nash (1954). “Many long years ago”
Ogden Nash (1941). “The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City publishing company, inc
Norman Douglas (2014). “South Wind”, p.198, Courier Corporation
Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1902). “The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort”
Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик