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Funny Quotes - Page 317

I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures.

I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures.

His reason for not playing cricket. Quoted in Bloomsbury Thematic Dictionary of Quotations (1988)

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

Oscar Wilde (2013). “An Ideal Husband: Second Edition, Revised”, p.36, A&C Black

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

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

Biography lends to death a new terror.

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

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.

Said to a journalist on his 90th birthday, eric.ed.gov. March 08, 1931.

Certainly there are lots of things in life that money won't buy, but it's very funny- Have you ever tried to buy them without money?

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

A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.

Sixes and Sevens,'Makes The Whole World Kin' (1911).

Never marry a man you wouldn't want to be divorced from.

Nora Ephron (2014). “The Most of Nora Ephron”, p.336, Random House

Gee, what a terrific party. Later on we'll get some fluid and embalm each other.

Neil Simon (1979). “The collected plays of Neil Simon”, Plume Books