Quotes About Humor

Wishing to make an effective entrance, he flung it wide open, when a heavy jug of water fell right down on him, wetting him to the skin, and just missing his left shoulder by a couple of inches. At the same moment he heard stifled shrieks of laughter proceeding from the four-post bed.

You seem to forget that I am married, and the one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties. I never know where my wife is, and my wife never knows what I am doing. When we meet—we do meet occasionally, when we dine out together, or go down to the Duke's—we tell each other the most absurd stories with the most serious faces.

We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.

If the caveman had known how to laugh, history would have been different.

People are either hunting for husbands, or hiding from them.

At the present moment I am eating muffins because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins.

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, history would have been different.

You should treat the trivial things in life seriously and the serious things in life with a sincere and studied triviality

You cut life to pieces with your epigrams.

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

Sono così intelligente che a volte non capisco una sola parola di quel che sto dicendo.

Our husbands would really forget our existence if we didn't nag at them from time to time, just to remind them that we have a perfect legal right to do so.

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

Who had a large wardrobe of Humour's cast-off clothes

I don't desire to change anything in England except the weather

Hello, I am Oscar Wilde

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

Oh! I killed Bunbury this afternoon... I mean poor Bunbury died this afternoon. What did he die of? Bunbury? Oh, he was exploded!

My dear fellow, the way you flirt with Gwendolen is perfectly disgraceful. It is almost as disgraceful as the way Gwendolen flirts with you.

I love talking about nothing, father.  It is the only thing I know anything about. lord

La humanidad se toma a sí misma demasiado en serio. Es el pecado original del mundo. Si el hombre de las cavernas hubiera sabido reír, la historia habría sido diferente.

My dear boy, I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

I don't think I would care to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.

I have come up to town expressly to propose to her. Algernon. I thought you had come up for pleasure? . . . I call that business.