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Julius Henry Marx (2 October 1890 – 19 August 1977), primarily known as Groucho Marx, was an American comedian and actor, famous for his work in the Marx Brothers comedy team, and his solo film and television career.
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“A likely story — and probably true.”
— Groucho Marx
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Quote source: The Al Jolson Show repartee following a trite, scripted Al Jolson joke. (1949)
“Although it is generally known, I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early age.”
— Groucho Marx
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Quote source: From his autobiography Groucho and Me (1959)
“I sent the club a wire stating, "PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT PEOPLE LIKE ME AS A MEMBER".”
— Groucho Marx
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Quote source: Telegram to the Friar's Club of Beverly Hills to which he belonged, as recounted in Groucho and Me (1959), p. 321
“[Variant:] "Please accept my resignation. I don’t care to belong to any club that will have me as a member".”
— Groucho Marx
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Quote source: As quoted in The Groucho Letters (1967) by Arthur Sheekman. The sentiment predates Marx by 61 years, however; it likely originated with John Galsworthy in The Forsyte Saga. In Part I, Chapter II, "Old Jolyon Goes to the Opera", it's said of Old Jolyon that, "He naturally despised the Club that did take him." after another refused him because he was in a trade.
“No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.”
— Groucho Marx
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Quote source: From his book Groucho and Me. It is a variation of a maxim by 17th-century French nobleman François de La Rochefoucauld: "In the adversity of our best friends, we often find something that is not displeasing." (Maxim 99 from Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims, 1665 edition.)
“Here's to our wives and girlfriends... may they never meet! (Variation on an old Royal Navy wardroom toast: "Wives and Sweethearts! May they never meet!")”
— Groucho Marx
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“From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend on reading it.”
— Groucho Marx
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Quote source: To S J Perelman about his book Dawn Ginsbergh’s Revenge (1929), as quoted in LIFE (9 February 1962)
“I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.”
— Groucho Marx
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Quote source: Quote by Leo Rosten in The Many Worlds of Leo Rosten (1964)
“They say Allen got something from the Marx Brothers. He got nothing. Maybe twenty years ago, he might have been inspired. Today he's an original. The best, the funniest.”
— Groucho Marx
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Quote source: On Woody Allen, in an interview with Roger Ebert in Esquire magazine (7 March 1972)
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“I like pancakes, but I haven't got a closet full of them!”
— Groucho Marx
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Quote source: Groucho's actual response during one of You Bet Your Life episodes referred to in the above quote.
“I did a bond tour during the Second World War... We were raising money, and we played Boston and Philadelphia and most of the big cities. And we got to Minneapolis. There wasn't any big theater to play there, so we did our show in a railroad station. Then I told the audience that I knew a girl in Minneapolis. She was also known in St.Paul, she used to come over to visit me. She was known as "The Tail Of Two Cities." I didn't sell any more bonds, but eh... they didn't allow me to appear anymore.”
— Groucho Marx
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Quote source: Recounting a War Bonds tour in his Carnegie Hall appearance (6 May 1972)
“My experience is that people are most likely to listen to reason when in bed.”
— Groucho Marx
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Quote source: Liner notes of An Evening With Groucho (1972) the recording of his appearance at Carnegie Hall.
“I don't have a photograph. I'd give you my footprints, but they're upstairs in my socks.”
— Groucho Marx
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More on this quote: When asked for a photograph for identification
• The Groucho Phile (1976)
“I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book.”
— Groucho Marx
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Quote source: As quoted in Halliwell’s Filmgoer’s Companion (1984) by Leslie Halliwell
“To write an autobiography of Groucho Marx would be as asinine as to read an autobiography of Groucho Marx.”
— Groucho Marx
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Quote source: Just after completing his second autobiography, as quoted in The Marx Brothers: A Bio-bibliography (1987) by Wes D. Gehring, p. 137
“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.”
— Groucho Marx
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Quote source: As quoted in What Color is Your Paradigm: Thinking for Shaping Life and Results (2003) by Howard Edson, p. 184
“Die, my dear? Why that's the last thing I'll do!”
— Groucho Marx
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More on this quote: Last words
• Lord Palmerston had similar last words in 1865: "Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!"
“I've been around so long, I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin.”
— Misattributed to Groucho Marx
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Quote source: Apparently said by Oscar Levant: "I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin" (as quoted in The Wit and Wisdom of Hollywood (1972) by Max Wilk).
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“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.”
— Misattributed to Groucho Marx
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Quote source: This may be original with Groucho, but the Quote Investigator mentions the earliest report found in a 1958 issue of Boy's Life magazine where it is attributed to Jim Brewer.
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.”
— Misattributed to Groucho Marx
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More on this quote: • Apparently attributed to Marx in Bennett Cerf's Try and Stop Me, first published in 1944. A citation of this can been seen in the Kentucky New Era on November 9, 1964. Also attributed to Marx by Rand Paul in "The Long Stand," ch. 1 of Taking a Stand: Moving Beyond Partisan Politics to Unite America (New York, N. Y.: Center Street, 26 May 2015), p. 5.
• The original quotation belongs to Sir Ernest Benn (Henry Powell Spring, What is Truth?, Orange Press, 1944, p. 31); a first known citation reportedly appears in the Springfield (MA) Republican on July 27, 1930.
“Some years back, after a childhood of preoccupation with comedy that led me to observing the styles of all the great comedians, I came to the conclusion that Groucho Marx was the best comedian this country ever produced. Now I am more convinced than ever that I was right. I can't think of a comedian who combined a totally original physical conception that was hilarious with a matchless verbal delivery. I believe there is a natural inborn greatness in Groucho that defies close analysis as it does with any genuine artist. He is simply unique in the same way that Picasso or Stravinsky are, and I believe his outrageous unsentimental disregard for order will be equally as funny a thousand years from now. In addition to all this, he makes me laugh.”
— About Groucho Marx
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Quote source: about Marx Woody Allen on the liner notes of An Evening With Groucho (1972)
“I admit it's not original, Mr. Marx. It's a line you used in Horse Feathers, which I assumed you ad-libbed. You didn't get a laugh with it either.”
— Irving Brecher
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Quote source: about Marx Irving Brecher, circa 1938, responding to Marx's harsh assessment of the first words uttered to him by the then 19-year-old Brecher (i.e. "Meeting you is like a dream come true"); as quoted in "Marx Brothers Revolutionized Early Years of Film Comedy" by Brecher, Asbury Park Press (October 8, 1979)p. B3
“Groucho appeals on so many levels at once that you could go nuts trying to figure out whether it's the funny movement, the incomparable tone of voice, what he is saying, or that keenly witty face that hits you the hardest. I swear that if he never existed, we would sense a lack in the world of comedy, like that planet in the solar system that astronomers say Ought to be there. For me he is The Master.”
— About Groucho Marx
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Quote source: about Marx Dick Cavett on the liner notes of An Evening With Groucho (1972)
“Groucho Marx is the only actor I ever allowed to ad-lib in a show I wrote. That was because I couldn't stop him.”
— About Groucho Marx
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Quote source: about Marx George S. Kaufman on the liner notes of An Evening With Groucho (1972)
“George Kaufman and I wrote a lot of funny lines for Groucho, some of which he occasionally used... but it was Groucho who by his innate sense of timing and his inimitable delivery, added the ingredient that brought the house down.”
— About Groucho Marx
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Quote source: about Marx Morrie Ryskind on the liner notes of An Evening With Groucho (1972)
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