Collection: Humour Prints

Three hundred lines that are funny on purpose: Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain, Mae West, Groucho Marx, Dorothy Parker and Henny Youngman, with Wilhelm Busch in German, Molière in French, and the dry proverbs of Spain, Italy, Russia, Japan and Korea, which have their own way of being rude about human nature.

A funny print earns its place in a kitchen, a downstairs loo, a home bar, a shared office or a spare room. Setting a joke in serious typography is half the joke: a Mae West line in quiet small capitals looks like it belongs in a gallery, until you read it. Non-English prints carry the original only, with the English translation on the product page; Chinese and Japanese are set vertically.

Three to start with

• I can resist everything except temptation, Oscar Wilde
• The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated, Mark Twain
• I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it, Mae West

Questions people ask

Did they really say it? Jokes migrate between famous names more than any other kind of quote, so each product page carries a confidence grade, and a line that has drifted from Twain to Wilde and back is marked medium or disputed rather than dressed up.

What do I receive? A print-ready PDF with embedded vector type, downloaded straight after payment.

Which sizes? Eight, from 5 x 7 inches to 24 x 36 inches, plus A4. Print at home or at a print shop.