John Barrymore Quotes

#1. Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.

John Barrymore

#2. I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.

John Barrymore

#3. Happiness often sneaks in a door you did not know you had left open.

John Barrymore

#4. My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go anywhere.

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#5. When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.

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#6. Busy yourselves with this, you damned walruses, while the rest of use proceed with the libretto.

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#7. A man must pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra often had to be subsidized.

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#8. My only regret in the theater is that I could never sit out front and watch me.

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#9. My head is buried in the sands of tomorrow, while my tail feathers are singed by the hot sun of today.

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#10. I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning.

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#11. You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.

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#12. Dying is the last thing I will ever do.

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#13. I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

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#14. The good die young, because they see it's no use living if you have got to be good.

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#15. Happiness always sneaks in through a door you din't know you left open

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#16. You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony.

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#17. America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin For one dollar and use it up in two weeks.

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#18. You can't drown yourself in drink. I've tried, you float.

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#19. Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.

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#20. In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.

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#21. There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.

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#22. Mr. [John] Barrymore's smile was the smile of an actor who hates actors, and who knows that he is going to kill two or three before the play is over. I am not an actor-killer, but I like my Hamlets to dislike actors, if you know what I mean, and I think you don't.

John Barrymore

#23. My wife was too beautiful for words, but not for arguments.

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#24. Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.

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#25. Method acting? There are quite a few methods. Mine involves a lot of talent, a glass, and some cracked ice.

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#26. Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

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#27. Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

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#28. If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner.

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#29. The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

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#30. A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

John Barrymore