When a writer dies you get a higher standard of obituary.

- Arthur Smith

There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.

- Brendan Behan

Anyone who has to write an obituary for me one day will probably say, 'She did absolute depths of agony really well.' I'm not, however, an unhappy person.

- Lesley Manville

An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.

- Quentin Crisp

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

- Robert Mankoff

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 at least.

- Spencer Abraham