All Quotes
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, 1891
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.Edith Sitwell
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.Oscar Wilde
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else.Will Rogers, Illiterate Digest (1924), "Warning to Jokers: lay off the prince"
An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.Robert Benchley
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.Robert Benchley
The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.Nancy Astor
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.John Maynard Keynes
For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.Alice Kahn
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.Alfred Hitchcock