Quote

What is the difference between a Nazi and a dog?The Nazi lifts his arm.

Victor Borge

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Victor Borge
Age: 91 †
Born: 1909
Born: January 3
Died: 2000
Died: December 23
Actor
Comedian
Composer
Conductor
Pianist
Stand-Up Comedian
København
Børge Rosenbaum
Arms
Difference
Differences
Nazi
Lifts
Dog

More quotes by Victor Borge

Image
When an opera star sings her head off? she usually improves her appearance.
Victor Borge
Image
The conductor is a peculiar person. He turns his back on his friends in the audience, shakes a stick at his players in the orchestra, and then wonders why nobody loves him.
Victor Borge
Image
(Responding to a sneeze from the audience) Who exploded?
Victor Borge
Image
...the elephant smoked too much.
Victor Borge
Image
The oboe sounds like a clarinet with a cold.
Victor Borge
Image
Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.
Victor Borge
Image
(Referring to the piano's natural shape) Isn't it a shame when those big fat opera singers lean against the pianos and bend them?
Victor Borge
Image
Occasionally, a finger comes up to wipe a tear [of laughter] from the eye... and that's my reward... the rest goes to the government.
Victor Borge
Image
It (the double-clarinet in India) was primarily used for snake charming, since the snake would do almost anything to get the Indians to stop playing it.
Victor Borge
Image
One afternoon, when I was four years old, my father came home, and he found me in the living room in front of a roaring fire, which made him very angry. Because we didn't have a fireplace.
Victor Borge
Image
Many people have asked me why there are three pedals in these grand pianos. Well the pedal in the middle is there to separate the two other pedals.
Victor Borge
Image
In my youth, I wanted to be a great pantomimist -- but I found I had nothing to say.
Victor Borge
Image
Clarinets, like lawyers, have cases, mouthpieces, and they need a constant supply of hot air in order to function.
Victor Borge
Image
Flint must be an extremely wealthy town: I see that each of you bought two or three seats.
Victor Borge
Image
When I was a little boy and played Liebestraum, my father used to hit me on the head with a newspaper every time I slopped the cadenza . . . I hate Liebestraum.
Victor Borge
Image
They say that Nero started the fire himself because he needed a suitable backdrop for his concert.
Victor Borge
Image
I normally don't do requests. Unless, of course, I have been asked to do so.
Victor Borge
Image
If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.
Victor Borge
Image
Well, all's fair in love, war and fooling the critics.
Victor Borge
Image
You want something by Bach? Which one, Johann Sebastian or Jacques Offen?
Victor Borge