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  • It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

    People   Luck   Enemy  
    LadyWindermere's Fan act 1 (1892)
  • Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

    Funny   Life   Witty  
    Oscar Wilde (1947). “The Happy Prince”, p.16, New Line Publishing
  • True friends stab you in the front.

  • Beauty is something that is hard to debate. Every man thinks his ideal the best. But the wittiest woman rise to the top of this structure, conventional beauty often taking a back seat to a woman possessed of a clever tongue.

    Clever   Men   Thinking  
  • When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

    Funny   Life   Inspiring  
  • Have you ever rightly considered what the mere ability to read means? That it is the key which admits us to the whole world of thought and fancy and imagination? to the company of saint and sage, of the wisest and the wittiest at their wisest and wittiest moment? That it enables us to see with the keenest eyes, hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time? More than that, it annihilates time and space for us.

    Reading   Mean   Eye  
    James Russell Lowell (1887). “Democracy and other Addresses”
  • Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

    Funny   Life   Happiness  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • My senior year of high school, I was voted Wittiest. So, several years later, I decided to try my hand at writing humor to see if I could be witty enough to make some money.

    Senior   Witty   Writing  
  • Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom.

    Country   Book   Reading  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2472, Delphi Classics
  • The simple equations that generate the convoluted Mandelbrot fractal have been called the wittiest remarks ever made.

    John Allen Paulos (2008). “Once Upon A Number: The Hidden Mathematical Logic Of Stories”, p.61, Hachette UK
  • If evolution was worth its salt, it should've evolved something better than 'survival of the fittest.' I think a better idea would be 'survival of the wittiest.' At least, that way, creatures that didn't survive could've died laughing.

    "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe". Play by Jane Wagner, 1985.
  • Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.

    "Mark Twain: Selected Writings of an American Skeptic". Book by Mark Twain, 1983.
  • Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen library-a company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked out of all civilized countries in a thousand years. The men themselves were then hidden and inaccessible. They were solitary, impatient of interruption, and fenced by etiquette. But now they are immortal, and the thought they did not reveal, even to their bosom friends, is here written out in transparent words of light to us, who are strangers of another age.

  • Thank your readers and the critics who praise you, and then ignore them. Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in the universe: Write to please yourself.

  • Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest - then we can all die laughing.

  • I remember when I posed as a customs officer so that I could meet Oscar Wilde. I said to him "Have you anything to declare?" He said "I have nothing to declare but my genius." I said "I'll put that down as nothing then shall I?" For I am the wittiest man on Earth.

    Men   Genius   Earth  
  • Buy land, they're not making it anymore.

    Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.53, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

    Cute   Witty   Fools Day  
    'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. [37]
  • I own four copies of Robin WIlliams's Live on Broadway comedy special for HBO. One in Wilmington, one in L.A., one in my trailer, and one at my parents' house. I can watch it over and over again and it never gets old. He is the funniest, wittiest man on the planet!

    Men   Hbo   House  
  • If evolution was worth its salt, by now it should've evolved something better than survival of the fittest. I think a better idea would be survival of the wittiest.

  • A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

    Funny   Witty   Sarcasm  
    'The Critic as Artist' pt. 2 in 'Intentions' (1891)
  • There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

    The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 1 (1891) See Behan 3; Modern Proverbs 71
  • All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

    Funny   Mothers Day   Mom  
    The Importance of Being Earnest act 1 (1895). The same lines appear, as a dialogue between Lord Illingworth and Mrs. Allonby, in A Woman of No Importance, act 2 (1893).
  • The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.

    Food   Cooking   Culinary  
    Reginald (1904) "Reginald on Besetting Sins"
  • How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

  • There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. Men do not quarrel about the meaning of sunsets; they never dispute that the hawthorn says the best and wittiest thing about the spring.

    Spring   Sunset   Eye  
    "The Defendant". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1901.
  • Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

    Oscar Wilde (1947). “The Happy Prince”, p.16, New Line Publishing
  • Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things.

  • It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

    Pride and Prejudice ch. 1 (1813)
  • Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

    Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 19, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)
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