Walter Winchell Quotes

#1. An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.

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#2. I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.

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#3. He (Alexander Woollcott) always praises the first production of each season, being reluctant to stone the first cast.

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#4. Hell hath no fury like a woman cheated out of a million dollars.

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#5. True friends walks in when the rest of the world has walked out.

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#6. The Chicago mobs ... They practiced their own perverted form of "survival of the fittest." Where the strong clawed their way to the top of a criminal empire. And the weak died in a hail of machine gun bullets.

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#7. Broadway is a main artery of New York life - the hardened artery.

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#8. Gossip is the are of saying nothing in a way that leave practically nothing unsaid.

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#9. Today's gossip is tomorrow's headline.

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#10. A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.

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#11. Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.

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#12. Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.

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#13. The way to become famous fast is to throw a brick at someone who is famous.

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#14. Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.

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#15. The reason they're called the opposite sex is because every time you think you have your wife fooled - it's just the opposite!

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#16. She's been on more laps than a napkin.

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#17. Money sometimes makes fools of important persons, but it may also make important persons of fools.

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#18. It's a sure sign of summer if the chair gets up when you do.

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#19. America - love it or leave it.

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#20. Here lies Walter Winchell in the dirt he loved so well.

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#21. The best way to get along is never to forgive an enemy or forget a friend.

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#22. Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. America from border to border and coast to coast and all the ships at sea. Let's go to press.

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#23. Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.

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#24. The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.

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#25. Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

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#26. A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

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#27. Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.

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#28. The same thing happened today that happened yesterday, only to different people.

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#29. Nothing recedes like success.

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#30. I never lost a friend I wanted to keep.

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#31. A certain columnist has been banned from all Shubert openings. Now he can wait three days and go to their closings.

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