Duck Soup Quotes

#1. Clear? Huh! Why a four-year-old child could understand this report! Run out and find me a four-year-old child, I can't make head or tail of it.

Groucho Marx

#2. There is a stability in the Universe because of the orderly and balanced process of change, the same measure coming out as going in, as if reality were a huge fire that inhaled and exhaled equal amounts.

Heraclitus

#3. I think of these desert years of mine, not of my choosing. Maybe if it were all smooth and comfortable, if my pride and professionalism were defining life for me, God's steel-quiet, penetrating word would have been lost in the babble and sheen of success.

Luci Shaw

#4. Diplomacy is letting someone else have your way.

Lester B. Pearson

#5. Take two turkeys, one goose, four cabbages, but no duck, and mix them together. After one taste, you'll duck soup for the rest of your life

Groucho Marx

#6. Soup's on and I got a coupon.
Chinese restaurant asking for the Grey Poupon.
He said "No, duck sauce, soy sauce ...
And this ain't no Burger King, so you no get no toy, boss."

Daniel Dumile

#7. And maybe now you'll start treating everybody with respect. Not just the people you think are important.

Sophie Kinsella

#8. I could dance with you till the cows come home. Better still, I'll dance with the cows and you come home.
Groucho Marx was never one to pass up an opportunity for a play on words and this occurs in his dialogue of the 1933 film Duck Soup:

Groucho Marx

#9. Joy is my guidance system

Akosua Dardaine Edwards

#10. In Copenhagen, there's a long-term commitment to creating a well-functioning pedestrian city where all forms of movement - pedestrian, bicycles, cars, public transportation - are accommodated with equal priority.

Bjarke Ingels

#11. Don't tell them you're not a Marxist, darling, we saw Duck Soup together at the Rialto just last week.

Pansy Schneider-Horst

#12. I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.

Washington Irving