Quotes about Groucho Marx

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As Groucho Marx once said, 'Anyone can get old—all you have to do is to live long enough.'

Driftwood (Groucho Marx): It's all right. That's—that's in every contract. That's—that's what they call a sanity clause.
Fiorello (Chico Marx): You can't fool me. There ain't no Sanity Claus.

George S. Kaufman

Groucho Marx: I could dance with you till the cows come home. On second thoughts, I'd rather dance with the cows till you came home.

It was a little like living with a cross between Martha Graham and Groucho Marx: dancing with a wisecrack.

Groucho Marx: With a little study you'll go a long way, and I wish you'd start now.

Parry is a man with a previous life that was so damaged that he had to create another personality. … It's like post-traumatic stress syndrome: Some people respond to traumatic or tragic events by withdrawal; some even create other personalities. Parry is a creation — somewhat Don Quixote, somewhat Groucho Marx — but he's a creation designed to avoid a past event.

Trentino (Louis Calhern): I am willing to do anything to prevent this war.
Firefly (Groucho Marx): It's too late. I've already paid a month's rent on the battlefield.

"You." A finger the size of a corncob, an inch from Slothrop's nose.
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"Look," Slothrop's friend producing a kraft-paper envelope that even in the gloom Slothrop can tell is fat with American Army yellow-seal scrip, "I want you to hold this for me, till I ask for it back. It looks like Italo is going to get here before Tamara, and I'm not sure which one"
"At this rate, Tamara's gonna get here before tonight," Slothrop interjects in a Groucho Marx voice.
"Don't try to undermine my confidence in you," advises the Large One. "You're the man."