The Most Apropos One-Liners By Oscar Wilde
Have you ever watched that MTV insult show, Yo Mama, where comics get 60 seconds to insult each other? My dream match up would be Oscar Wilde versus Groucho Marx.
With shows like Yo Mama, and with Comedy Central showing a new celebrity roast every other week, and with Dean Martin’s television show dominating You Tube viewership, we have been inundated with insults. Too bad they so often forget to be funny.
In fact, their paucity of humor makes possible Norm Macdonald’s satirical take on the insult, which officially declares the art form dead.
In celebration of one of history’s insult kings, here are Oscar Wilde’s best one-liners:
#16 Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
#15 I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.
#14 Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
#13 It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
#12 Only the shallow know themselves.
#11 Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
#10 It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
#9 Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
#8 The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.
#7 My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people’s.
#6 To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
#5 A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
#4 Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
#3 The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
#2 The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
#1 A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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