Quotes About Groucho

One time I attended a big Hollywood party, and everybody was there Groucho Marx, Jack Benny, George Burns, Barbra Streisand. I walked around with my mouth hanging open, just thrilled that I had been invited!

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

Je suis Marxiste, tendance Groucho.

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 you tell me what you know.

Groucho's definition of politics is Marxism in a nutshell: "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.

Now there's a man with an open mind - you can feel the breeze from here!

I always preferred Harpo to Groucho Marx.

There is a metaphor somewhere in the story Groucho liked to tell about an encounter with one of his most illustrious peers, W. C. Fields. Fields took Groucho up to his attic, where the astonished Groucho discovered, as he later described it, "$50,000 worth of booze up there in boxes. I said 'Bill, why do you have all that whiskey up here? Don't you know prohibition is over?' 'Well,' he said, 'It may come back.'" In

The thing that made Groucho special was the way he used his body parts. He also had a wicked tongue. People didn't realize it, but when Groucho said something, he meant it.

I am a Marxist--of the Groucho tendency.

Groucho Marx once said he found television very educational. "Every time someone turns it on," he said, "I go in the other room to read a book.

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.

I´m a Marxist, all right, Groucho tendency, and a Leninist, Lennon tendency

I am your true Marxist critic, following Groucho rather than Karl, and take as my motto Groucho's grand admonition: Whatever it is, I'm against it!

The genius of the Marx Brothers is for parody. They never are themselves. They exist too abundantly to be content with being that - they must go on, by the rapidest of transitions, to being something else. Groucho, in my opinion the bright star among the three, is never anything but the thing he is at the moment pretending to be.

There is no sweeter sound than the crumbling of one's fellow man.

Remember men, you are fighting for the ladies honor, which is probably more than she ever did.

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.

It frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

I've got a good mind to go out and join a club and beat you over the head with it.

I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

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.

Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective.