Groucho Marx's most famous quotes (the ones he really said)
The top 3 according to 25 votes from people: One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know. · I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member. · I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.. (Updated Jul 2, 2019.)
Groucho's lines from the Marx Brothers films and his books, with title and year. Hoaxes left out: «Those are my principles, and if you don't like them… I have others» isn't his, and his gravestone doesn't say «Excuse me, I can't stand up».
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Top 12
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One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know.
Captain Spaulding in Animal Crackers (1930).
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2
I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.
His resignation telegram to the Friars Club of Beverly Hills, told in his autobiography Groucho and Me (1959).
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3
I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
Recorded by his friend Leo Rosten in The Many Worlds of Leo Rosten (1964).
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4
The party of the first part shall be known in this contract as the party of the first part.
The contract scene with Chico in A Night at the Opera (1935).
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5
Why, a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child, I can't make…
«Why, a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child, I can't make head or tail of it.» Rufus T. Firefly in Duck Soup (1933).
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6
Whatever it is, I'm against it.
The song «Whatever It Is, I'm Against It» from Horse Feathers (1932).
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7
I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early age.
The opening of his autobiography Groucho and Me (1959).
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8
Hello, I must be going.
The song «Hello, I Must Be Going» from Animal Crackers (1930).
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9
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
His «blurb» for a book by his friend S. J. Perelman.
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10
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
One of his most quoted lines about TV, from the years he hosted You Bet Your Life.
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11
Chicolini here may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot.
Rufus T. Firefly about Chicolini in Duck Soup (1933).
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12
Marry me and I'll never look at another horse!
Dr. Hackenbush in A Day at the Races (1937).
Candidates
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13
Remember, you're fighting for this woman's honour, which is probably more than she ever did.
Rufus T. Firefly in Duck Soup (1933).
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Comments (4)
Lo del elefante en pijama es lo mejor que se ha dicho nunca en una película 😂
La parte contratante de la primera parte, mi padre la repite cada vez que firma algo.
Sopa de ganso es su obra maestra.
Por fin alguien aclara lo de «estos son mis principios», que no es suyo.