Humor e Ironia

‘Goodness, what beautiful diamonds!’

Beulah, peel me a grape.

It’s not the men in my life that counts—it’s the life in my men.

I always say, keep a diary and some day it’ll keep you.

The secret of being a bore … is to tell everything.

of Truman Capote ’s death:

Laughter … the most civilized music in the world.

Hain’t we got all the fools in town on our side? and ain’t that a big enough majority in any town?

I didn’t fire him [General MacArthur] because he was a dumb son of a bitch, although he was, but that’s not against the law for generals. If it was, half to three-quarters of them would be in jail.

Always be sincere, even if you don’t mean it.

A statesman is a politician who’s been dead 10 or 15 years.

Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity.

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?

Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.

It’s a naïve domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you’ll be amused by its presumption.

Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

It’s a funny old world.

Surtout, Messieurs, point de zèle.

A stick and a string, with a fly at one end and a fool at the other.

So, naturalists observe, a flea

So geographers, in Afric-maps,

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe, how much it altered her person for the worse.