Bert Williams was the funniest man I ever saw and the saddest man I ever knew. — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
Women are like elephants to me. I like to look at them, but I wouldn't want to own one. — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
Comedy is a serious business. A serious business with only one purpose--to make people laugh. — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
The first thing any comedian does on getting an unscheduled laugh is to verify the state of his . — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
In every big city there is always one surefire laugh, and that lies in hanging some piece of idiocy upon the people… — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
A comic should suffer as much over a single line as a man with a hernia would in picking up a heavy… — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
No one likes the fellow who is all rogue, but we'll forgive him almost anything if there is warmth of human sympathy… — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
The funniest thing about comedy is that you never know why people laugh. I know what makes them laugh but trying to… — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
The work I'm doing on the screen differs from that of anyone else. My comedy is of a peculiar nature...no writers have… — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house unless they have a well-stocked bar. — W. C. Fields Copy Share
There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation. — W. C. Fields Copy Share
I feel like a midget with muddy feet had been walking over my tongue all night. — W. C. Fields Copy Share
What would you do if you were President, and, on the first day of May, the Russian Ambassador presented you with a beautiful cake… — W. C. Fields Copy Share
My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies. — W. C. Fields Copy Share
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison. — W. C. Fields Copy Share
Bert Williams was the funniest man I ever saw and the saddest man I ever knew. — W. C. Fields Copy Share
A comic should suffer as much over a single line as a man with a hernia would in picking up a heavy barbell. — W. C. Fields Copy Share
Back in my rummy days, I would tremble and shake for hours upon arising. It was the only exercise I got. — W. C. Fields Copy Share
W. C. Fields, a lifetime agnostic, was discovered reading a Bible on his deathbed. ''I'm looking for a loop-hole,'' he explained. — W. C. Fields Copy Share
The movie people would have nothing to do with me until they heard me speak in a Broadway play, then they all wanted to… — W. C. Fields Copy Share
