W.C. Fields Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by W.C. Fields
W.C. Fields Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from W.C. Fields on Wise Famous Quotes.
I like thieves. Some of my best friends are thieves. Why, just last week we had the president of the bank over for dinner.
It was a marriage of convenience, as my father had a blister on his big toe and couldn't travel far to find a girl.
I write my scripts short and they develop on the set, which I have found a far better premise both economically and practically.
I was in love with a beautiful blond once. She drove me to drink. That's the one thing I'm indebted to her for.
My main ambition as a gardener is to water my orange trees with gin, then all I have to do is squeeze the juice into a glass.
Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.
I could juggle anything in my day. Balls, cigar boxes, knives ... But there was one thing I could never juggle. My income tax.
Ultimately chess is just chess - not the best thing in the world and not the worst thing in the world, but there is nothing quite like it.
When asked to borrow money: I'll see what my lawyer says ... And if he says yes, I'll get another lawyer.
Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.
In every big city there is always one surefire laugh, and that lies in hanging some piece of idiocy upon the people of a nearby city or town.
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
I didn't squawk about the steak, dear. I merely said I didn't see that old horse that used to be tethered outside here.
A man who overindulges lives in a dream. He becomes conceited. He thinks the whole world revolves around him; and it usually does.
Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.
In the ten years since I had run away from home ... I had gone through more strange experiences than the average person crowds into a whole lifetime.
I've been asked if I ever get the DTs. I don't know. It's hard to tell where Hollywood ends and the DTs begin.
Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain unless you've used up all the other four-letter words.
I don't object to nine aces in one deck. But when a man lays down five aces in one hand ... and besides, I know what I dealt him!
If I ever found a church that didn't believe in knocking all the other churches, I might consider joining it.
My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies.
There's no such thing as a tough child - if you parboil them first for seven hours, they always come out tender.
Try till you succeed ... if you don't succeed once, then destroy all evidence of the fact that you tried!
A comic should suffer as much over a single line as a man with a hernia would in picking up a heavy barbell.
There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.
So long as the presence of death lurks with anyone who goes through the simple act of swallowing, I will make mine whiskey.
The Punkwat twins! Brentwood is the world's smallest giant, whilst his brother, Elwood, is the largest midget in the world. They baffle science!
During one of my treks through Afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew. We were compelled to live on food and water for several days.
No man is the boss of his own house, but he can make up for it, he thinks, by making a dog play dead.