Top 100 Quotes About Groucho Marx
#1. Groucho Marx, in his later days, gave me the best review I've ever had and probably will ever have. I changed a light bulb over his bed, and when I came off of his bed with the used one after putting the new one in, Groucho said, 'That's the best acting I've ever seen you do.'
Elliott Gould
#2. Groucho Marx shot back angrily, "The Sandy McPhersons and Yonny Yohnsons were not a minority being subjected to oppression, restriction, segregation or persecution.
Kliph Nesteroff
#3. Here lies Groucho Marx and Lies and Lies and Lies P.S. He never kissed an ugly girl.
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#5. I was changing a light bulb over Groucho Marx's bed, so I took my shoes off, got on his bed and changed the bulb. When I got off the bed he said: 'That's the best acting you've ever done.'
Elliott Gould
#6. Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective.
John Lithgow
#7. I always preferred Harpo to Groucho Marx.
Lee Evans
#8. I know I'm not funny. I mean, let's face it, I'm no Groucho Marx. But if you're a guy, and you're watching late night television, are you gonna start jacking off to Groucho? I don't think so!
Sarah Silverman
#9. To write an autobiography of Groucho Marx would be as asinine as to read an autobiography of Groucho Marx.
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#10. I know of only six genuine comic geniuses in movie history; Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Groucho Marx & Harpo Marx, Peter Sellers, and W.C. Fields.
Woody Allen
#11. 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:
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#12. Groucho Marx This is not a book that should be set aside lightly - it should be flung with great force.
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#13. I came from a generation where women were almost deified, and like Groucho Marx's line, "I wouldn't want to be a member of a club that would have me as a member", I thought, "I wouldn't want to sleep with a woman who would sleep with me!" It took me a long time to work my way through that.
John Waters
#15. The real achievement of Woody Allen was that he was making movies that felt very personal, and for a whole group of people, it spoke to them. Then he became an archetype, like Groucho Marx or Chaplin.
Noah Baumbach
#16. Throughout my life, there are four people I've met who were truly original people. The other three were Groucho Marx, Jim Morrison, and Pablo Picasso.
Alice Cooper
#17. Firefly: Now that you're Secretary of War, what kind of an army do you think we oughta have? Chicolini: Well, I tell you what I think. I think we should have a standing army. Firefly: Why should we have a standing army? Chicolini: Because then we save money on chairs.
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#18. What have future generations ever done for us?
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#19. He's so full of alcohol, if you put a lighted wick in his mouth he'd burn for three days.
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#20. I'm not feeling very well - I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.
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#22. If he's been married for 31 years, he's not the same man.
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#23. Policeman: "A hermit eh? Then why's your table set for four?"
Groucho: "That's nothing. My alarm clock is set for eight.
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#24. Dig trenches? With our men being killed off like flies? There isn't time to dig trenches. We'll have to buy them ready made.
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#25. I'm not a vegetarian, but I eat animals who are.
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#26. Celebrate the cracks, because that's how the light comes in.
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#27. No, Groucho is not my real name. I am breaking it in for a friend.
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#28. No man goes before his time - unless the boss leaves early.
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#29. That's bad luck: three on a midget. From At The Circus
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#30. I did toy with the idea of doing a cook-book ... I think a lot of people who hate literature but love fried eggs would buy it if the price was right.
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#31. I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30.
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#32. I was born at a very early age. Before I had time to regret it, I was four and a half years old.
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#33. It is impossible to design anything that is foolproof because fools are so ingenious.
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#34. Years ago, I tried to top everybody, but I don't anymore. I realized it was killing conversation. When you're always trying for a topper you aren't really listening. It ruins communication
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#35. Oh, why can't we break away from all this, just you and I, and lodge with my fleas in the hills? I mean flee to my lodge in the hills
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#36. Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
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#37. If you want to see a comic strip, you should see me in the shower.
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#38. This would be a better place for children if parents had to eat spinach.
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#39. I can't understand why you don't get any mail from me. Perhaps it's because I haven't been writing
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#40. I've known and respected your husband for many years, and what's good enough for him is good enough for me
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#41. You're heading for a breakdown. Why don't you pull yourself to pieces
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#42. All people are born alike ... except Republicans and Democrats.
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#43. Most young women do not welcome promiscuous advances. (Either that, or my luck's terrible.)
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#44. I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
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#45. Only if the computers really love each other.
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#47. With a little study you'll go a long ways, and I wish you'd start now
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#48. I must confess, I was born at a very early age.
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#50. If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.
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#51. I'll never forget my wedding day ... they threw vitamin pills
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#52. Money will not make you happy, and happy will not make you money.
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#53. There is no sweeter sound than the crumbling of one's fellow man.
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#55. Every time someone turns on a TV, I go in the other room and read.
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#56. Don't be silly. I'll write you twice a week.
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#58. I know, I know - you're a woman who's had a lot of tough breaks. Well, we can clean and tighten those brakes, but you'll have to stay in the garage all night.
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#59. Africa is God's country, and He can have it.
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#60. With the possible exception of clothes, beauty salons and Frank Sinatra, there are few subjects all women agree upon.
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#61. Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
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#62. Since my daughter is only half-Jewish, could she go in the water up to her knees?
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#63. I've met a lot of pin-up girls, but I've never been able to pin one down
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#64. I'm leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it's not raining.
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#65. Don't let the fear of the thorn keep you from the rose.
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#67. This book was written in those long hours I spent waiting for my wife to get dressed to go out. And if she had never gotten dressed at all this book would never have been written.
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#68. If you're not having fun, you're doing something wrong.
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#70. Some day there will have to be some new rules established about name-calling. I don't mean the routine cursing that goes on between husband and wife, but the naming of defenseless, unsuspecting babies.
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#71. I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal.
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#72. In any relationship, the woman has control, the clever ones don't let the men know.
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#73. 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.
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#74. I'm going to Iowa for an award. Then I'm appearing at Carnegie Hall, it's sold out. Then I'm sailing to France to be honored by the French government - I'd give it all up for one erection.
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#76. Room service? Send up a larger room.
[A Night at the Opera]
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#77. If they'd lower the taxes and get rid of the smog and clean up the traffic mess, I really believe I'd settle here until the next earthquake.
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#78. I write by ear. I tried writing with the typewriter, but I found it too unwieldy
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#79. You are going Uruguay, and I'm going my way
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#80. Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
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#82. Now there's a man with an open mind - you can feel the breeze from here!
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#83. Those are my principles, and if you don't like them ... well I have others.
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#84. She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
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#85. In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people.
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#87. Laugh and the world laughs with you, cry and you're probably watching the wrong channel.
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#88. You call this a party? The beer is warm, the women cold and I'm hot under the collar
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#89. My brother thinks he's a chicken-We don't talk him out of it because we need the eggs
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#90. No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.
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#91. Today's Father Day and we're giving you a tie, it's not much you know, it's just our way of showing you, you're a regular guy.
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#92. I think you've got something there, but I'll wait outside until you clean it up
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#93. I cannot say that I don't disagree with you.
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#94. Would you mind getting off that fly paper and giving the flies a chance?"
"Ahhh, you can't trick me! Flies don't read papers!
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#95. Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh ... now you tell me what you know.
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#96. How do you feel about women's rights? I like either side of them.
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#97. As soon as I get through with you, you'll have a clear case for divorce and so will my wife.
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#98. I'm gonna put extra blankets, free, in all your rooms, and there'll be no cover charge
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#99. Firefly: Where is your husband? Mrs. Teasdale: Why, he's dead. Firefly: I'll bet he's just using that as an excuse. Mrs. Teasdale: I was with him to the very end. Firefly: Hmmph. No wonder he passed away. Mrs. Teasdale: I held him in my arms and kissed him. Firefly: Oh I see. Then, it was murder.
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#100. I never go to movies where the hero's tits are bigger than the heroine's.
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