Obituary Quotes
40 quotes by 35 authors
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There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.
— Brendan Behan
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All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.
— Brendan Behan
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When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up.
— Albert Brooks
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I get up every morning and read the obituary column. If my name's not there, I eat breakfast.
— George Burns
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My school was so tough the school newspaper had an obituary section.
— Norm Crosby
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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
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Hang onto your sense of humor. I picture my obituary : The sexiest man alive is now dead.
— Mark Harmon
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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
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There's no bad publicity except an obituary.
— Brendan Behan
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Men in the uniform of Wall Street retirement: black Chesterfield coat, rimless glasses and the Times folded to the obituary page..
— Jimmy Breslin
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I contemplated suicide. My main concern was that I would not make the New York Times obituary page.
— Art Buchwald
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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
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Everybody is a potential murderer. I've never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
— Clarence Darrow
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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: