Top 180 W. C. Fields Quotes (2023 Update)

1. “I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. ”

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2. “If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.”

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3. “Never work with animals or children.”

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4. “If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.”

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5. “I spent half my money on gambling, alcohol and wild women. The other half I wasted.”

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6. “Reality is an illusion that occurs due to the lack of alcohol.”

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7. “I don’t have to attend every argument I’m invited to.”

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8. “A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.”

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9. “Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.”

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10. “A merry Christmas to all my friends except two.”

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11. “Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.”

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12. “You can’t cheat an honest man.”

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13. “When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.”

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14. “First prize was a week in Philadelphia. Second prize was two weeks.”

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15. “Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.”

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16. “You can fool some of the people some of the time – and that’s enough to make a decent living.”

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17. “Money will not buy happiness, but it will let you be unhappy in nice places.”

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18. “Trust everybody, but cut the cards yourself.”

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19. “I used to be indecisive, now I’m not so sure.”

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20. “Smile first thing in the morning. Get it over with.”

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21. “If there’s a will, prosperity can’t be far behind.”

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22. “Comedy is a serious business. A serious business with only one purpose – to make people laugh.”

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23. “I don’t drink anymore, on the other hand I don’t drink any less either.”

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24. “Somebody’s been putting pineapple juice in my pineapple juice!”

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25. “Everybody’s got to believe in something. I believe I’ll have another beer.”

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26. “A woman drove me to drink and I didn’t even have the decency to thank her.”

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27. “It ain’t what they call you, it’s what you answer to.”

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28. “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.”

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29. “Beer: Helping ugly people have sex since 3000 B. C.”

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30. “A man without a woman is like a neck without a pain.”

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31. “The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.”

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32. “It’s a funny old world. A man’s lucky if he gets out of it alive.”

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33. “What a gorgeous day. What effulgent sunshine. It was a day of this sort the McGillicuddy brothers murdered their mother with an ax.”

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34. “Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.”

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35. “I drink therefore I am.”

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36. “It’s morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.”

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37. “I exercise strong self control. I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.”

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38. “I have spent a lot of time searching through the Bible for loopholes.”

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39. “Thou shalt not kill anything less than a fifth.”

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40. “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.”

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41. “I’ve never hit a woman in my life. Not even my own mother.”

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42. “Marry an outdoors woman. Then if you throw her out into the yard on a cold night, she can still survive.”

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43. “You can’t trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.”

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44. “It’s what you do that counts and not what you say; therefore I fired my press agent.”

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45. “I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.”

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46. “I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.”

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47. “There are better things than sex, but nothing quite like it.”

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48. “I can do anything I want to do!”

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49. “Bert Williams was the funniest man I ever saw and the saddest man I ever knew.”

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50. “There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.”

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