Groucho Marx

Actor, Comedian, Writer

Groucho Marx was a groundbreaking comedian and actor known for his quick wit and distinctive persona in the Marx Brothers films.

Born
October 2, 1890
Died
August 19, 1977
Quotes
319
Rank
#454

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"TV is the rat race of the century."

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"The Two Most Important Words In The World Are Honesty And Sincerity, If You Can Fake These You've Got It Made."

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"I would never join a country club with standards so low as to allow me as a member."

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"I am a man and you are a woman. I can't think of a better arrangement."

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"Ever since they found out that Lassie was a boy, the public has believed the worst about Hollywood"

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"I'd have liked to have gone to bed with Jean Harlow. She was a beautiful broad. The fellow who married her was impotent and he killed himself. I would have done the same thing."

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"We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife."

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"If he's been married for 31 years, he's not the same man."

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"Gerald Ford was unknown throughout America. Now he's unknown throughout the world."

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"That's nothing - my alarm clock is set for eight."

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"Bel Air, I am convinced, was laid out by some diabolic sadist who deliberately decided not to use a compass or a surveyor."

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"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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"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"

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"Obviously there was no point in being a bachelor if his houseman was going to filch his booze. If he was going to get robbed, he might just as well get married."

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"I'm not going to pay good money to join a club that lets in people like me."

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"Making love to your wife is like shooting at sitting ducks."

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"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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"Anyone buying this book is going to be out a tidy sum if he is sucked in by the title. I wish I could write a real sexy book that would be barred from the mails. Apparently nothing whets a reader's appetite for literature more than the news that the author has been thrown into a federal pokey for disturbing the libido of millions of Americans."

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