Quotes from Oscar Levant

I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing other patients.

When I appeared before the draft board examiner during World War II, he asked me if I thought I could kill. "I don't know about strangers," I replied, "but friends, certainly."

Marriage is a triumph of habit over hate.

A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.

I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.

So little time and so little to do.

Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.

Debbie Reynolds is as wistful as an iron foundry.

I'm a concert pianist. That's a pretentious way of saying I'm unemployed at the moment.

I have no trouble with my enemies. But my goddam friends,...they are the ones that keep me walking the floor nights

I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.

I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients.

I'm going to memorize your name and throw my head away.

I can remember Doris Day before she was a virgin.

When I can't sleep, I read a book by Steve Allen.

I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.

A pun is the lowest form of humor -- when you don't think of it first.

Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.

I have no trouble with my enemies. But my goddam friends,...they are the ones that keep me walking the floor nights.

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

There is a thin line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

I can remember Doris Day before she was a virgin.