Humor e Ironia

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?

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

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.

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?

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

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

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.

He was a bold man that first eat an oyster.

She wears her clothes, as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork.

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled, and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

We are so fond of one another, because our ailments are the same.

I have heard of a man who had a mind to sell his house, and therefore carried a piece of brick in his pocket, which he shewed as a pattern to encourage purchasers.