Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .'
Wilson Mizner
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Wilson Mizner
Age: 56 †
Born: 1876
Born: May 19
Died: 1933
Died: April 3
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
Benicia
California
Begins
Lying
Read
Brazen
Induce
Immediate
Sentence
Sentences
More quotes by Wilson Mizner
You're a mouse studying to be a rat.
Wilson Mizner
Don't talk about yourself it will be done when you leave.
Wilson Mizner
If you count all your assets you always show a profit.
Wilson Mizner
Money is the only substance which can keep a cold world from nicknaming a citizen Hey, you
Wilson Mizner
The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.
Wilson Mizner
The most pitiful human ailment is a birdseed heart.
Wilson Mizner
To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.
Wilson Mizner
He's the only man I ever knew who had rubber pockets so he could steal soup.
Wilson Mizner
It is criminal negligence to leave suckers lying around to tempt honest men.
Wilson Mizner
A fellow who is always declaring that he's no fool, usually has his suspicions.
Wilson Mizner
I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it.
Wilson Mizner
I had never considered marriage, but I had an open mind, and I was to learn after a brief try at it that most open minds should be closed for repairs.
Wilson Mizner
Failure has gone to his head.
Wilson Mizner
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something.
Wilson Mizner
The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.
Wilson Mizner
I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.
Wilson Mizner
The first hundred years are the hardest.
Wilson Mizner
I've known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, yet never had a thought.
Wilson Mizner
Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.
Wilson Mizner
Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton.
Wilson Mizner
