Humor Quote by Oscar Wilde — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“The public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities.... A fresh mode of Beauty is absolutely distasteful to them, and whenever it appears they get so angry and bewildered that they always use two stupid expressions--one is that the work of art is grossly unintelligible; the other, that the work of art is grossly immoral. What they mean by these words seems to me to be this. When they say a work is grossly unintelligible, they mean that the artist has said or made a beautiful thing that is new; when they describe a work as grossly immoral, they mean that the artist has said or made a beautiful thing that is true.”

“Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women.'”

“We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.”

“Every single human being should be the fulfilment of a prophecy: for every human being should be the realisation of some ideal, either in the mind of God or in the mind of man.”

“The aim of life is self-development. To realize ones nature perfectly that is what each of us is here for.”

“The day I can't pull something useful out of my ass is the day I quit sticking things up my ass.”

“The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy offers this definition of”

“Now Darkstripe,' Graypaw hissed to Firepaw under his breath, 'is neither young, nor pretty.”

“Life isn't all fricasseed frogs and eel pie.”

“Buttercup's mother whirled on him. 'Did you forget to pay your taxes?' (This was after taxes. But everything is after taxes. Taxes were here even before stew.)”

“Shane, in case we don’t … don’t come out of this, I wanted to say…”