Humor e Ironia

You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all the time.

The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason he makes so many of them.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork?

They dined on mince, and slices of quince,

Pussy said to the Owl, ‘You elegant fowl!

The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea

‘How pleasant to know Mr Lear!’

There was an old man of Thermopylae,

Far and few, far and few,

The Dong with a luminous nose.

On the coast of Coromandel

There was an Old Man with a beard,

Who, or why, or which, or what,

[A pun] is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.

Your borrowers of books —those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

Il faut rire avant que d’être heureux, de peur de mourir sans avoir ri.

It’s hard not to write satire.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.

Claret is the liquor for boys; port, for men; but he who aspires to be a hero (smiling) must drink brandy.

This man I thought had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords.

Sir, we are a nest of singing birds.

I’ll come no more behind your scenes, David; for the silk stockings and white bosoms of your actresses excite my amorous propensities.

I am sorry I have not learned to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness and consolidates society.