Oscar Wilde - classic wit

A while back I did a blog posting about Mae West in which I listed some of my favourite quotes of hers.  I thought that as a follow up I would do a posting in which I mentioned some of my favourite Oscar Wilde quotes.

Oscar Wilde was a brilliant novelist and playwright who lived in the second half of the nineteenth century, famous for such great works as ‘The Picture of Dorian Grey’ and ‘The Importance of Being Ernest’.  While some of his wittiest words are best read in context, other remarks are excellent stand-alone comments. Of these, some of my favourites are:

 

‘Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.’

Mae West - a great movie star

Love the hat!

A while back, I posted a couple of Mae West quotes and this picture on Facebook and ever since I've been meaning to say just a tiny bit more about about her. 

Mae West (1893-1980) was a great movie star and I love watching her films which are now famous for her one-liners, many of which she wrote herself.  Here are some of my favourites (from Wikiquote) that always make me laugh:

• Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.
  • Response to an exclamation, "Goodness! What lovely diamonds!" in Night After Night (1932). She later used Goodness had nothing to do with it as the title of her autobiography (1953).

• Why don't you come up sometime and see me? ... Come on up, I'll tell your fortune.
  • She Done Him Wrong (1933)

• Is that a pistol in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
  • She Done Him Wrong (1933)

• When I'm good, I'm very good. When I'm bad, I'm better.
  • I'm No Angel (1933)^[1]

• I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
  • I'm No Angel (1933)^[1]

• Between two evils, I generally like to pick the one I never tried before.
  • Klondike Annie (1936) Sometimes quoted as: "When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before."^[2]

• A man in the house is worth two in the street.
  • Belle of the Nineties

• It's not the men in your life that matters, it's the life in your men
  • I'm No Angel

• When women go wrong, men go right after them.
• She Done Him Wrong^[3]

I other thing I love about Mae West was that she proved that you could be a sex symbol without being a size 0 (or even a size 4, 8 or even 10!)