Obituary Quotes

40 quotes by 35 authors

• There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary. — Brendan Behan
• All publicity is good, except an obituary notice. — Brendan Behan
• When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up. — Albert Brooks
• I get up every morning and read the obituary column. If my name's not there, I eat breakfast. — George Burns
• My school was so tough the school newspaper had an obituary section. — Norm Crosby
• Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the… — Philip Guedalla
• Hang onto your sense of humor. I picture my obituary : The sexiest man alive is now dead. — Mark Harmon
• If you could have a famous writer, dead or alive, write an obituary for you and really puff you up to have been something you… — Padgett Powell
• There's no bad publicity except an obituary. — Brendan Behan
• Men in the uniform of Wall Street retirement: black Chesterfield coat, rimless glasses and the Times folded to the obituary page.. — Jimmy Breslin
• I contemplated suicide. My main concern was that I would not make the New York Times obituary page. — Art Buchwald
• I always wondered what hearing one's own obituary might sound like, and I sort of feel like I may have just heard part of it… — Spencer Abraham
• Everybody is a potential murderer. I've never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices. — Clarence Darrow
• Every instinct that is found in any man is in all men. The strength of the emotion may not be so overpowering, the barriers against… — Clarence Darrow
• We're all killers at heart . . . . I have never taken anybody's life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction. — Clarence Darrow
• A few years ago I wrote two versions of my obituary, the one I wanted and the one I was heading for. They were very… — Roz Savage
• About one month before he was killed, when asked by David Frost how his obituary should read: Something about the fact that I made some… — Robert Kennedy
• It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused A. B. Spottsworth to… — P.G. Wodehouse
• I'm fairly certain when I die that the obituary will say, 'Author of 'Angels in America' dies.' Unless I'm completely forgotten, and then it won't… — Tony Kushner
• Some people want to amass a great amount of wealth and make a great looking obituary. I'm going to die with more money than is… — Darrell Issa

Who Wrote These Obituary Quotes

35 authors contributed a total of 40 Obituary Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 4 Obituary Quotes by Clarence Darrow
• 3 Obituary Quotes by Brendan Behan
• 1 Obituary Quote by Billy Sunday
• 1 Obituary Quote by Alistair Maclean
• 1 Obituary Quote by James Joyce
• 1 Obituary Quote by James Frey
• 1 Obituary Quote by J.R.R. Tolkien
• 1 Obituary Quote by Rick Riordan
• 1 Obituary Quote by Tom Rachman
• 1 Obituary Quote by Peter Utley
• 1 Obituary Quote by Arthur Smith
• 1 Obituary Quote by AEMatthew
• 1 Obituary Quote by Myles Munroe
• 1 Obituary Quote by BOB
• 1 Obituary Quote by Albert Brooks
• 1 Obituary Quote by 2 Chainz
• 1 Obituary Quote by George Burns
• 1 Obituary Quote by Nancy Banks-Smith
• 1 Obituary Quote by Norm Crosby
• 1 Obituary Quote by Philip Guedalla
• 1 Obituary Quote by Mark Harmon
• 1 Obituary Quote by Padgett Powell
• 1 Obituary Quote by Jimmy Breslin
• 1 Obituary Quote by Art Buchwald
• 1 Obituary Quote by Spencer Abraham