Groucho Marx
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4 quotes we’ve traced to Groucho Marx
“From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it”
Verified“I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member”
Verified“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book”
Attributed“I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception”
AttributedNot actually Groucho Marx
Often misattributed to Groucho Marx
Famous lines widely pinned on Groucho Marx that we’ve traced to someone else.
“I've been around so long, I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin”
actually Oscar Levant
“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read”
actually Unknown (a 1940s newspaper joke)
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies”
actually Sir Ernest Benn
“Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others”
actually Unknown (an anonymous American legislator)
“Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana”
actually Unknown (a syntactic-ambiguity example)
“Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?”
actually Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby
“Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy”
actually Robert Quillen
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