Famous quotes containing the words norman reilly raine, reilly raine, norman, reilly and/or raine:
“An artist should remain true. Otherwise his talent, like his stomach, grows fat and stuffy.”
—Norman Reilly Raine (1895–1971)
“A fat stomach sticks out too far, Monsieur La Rue. It prevents you from looking down and seeing what is going on around you.”
—Norman Reilly Raine (1895–1971)
“Why don’t you go home to your wife? I’ll tell you what. I’ll go home to your wife and outside of the improvements, you’ll never know the difference. Pull over to the side of the road there and let me see your marriage license.”
—S.J. Perelman, U.S. screenwriter, Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, and Norman Z. McLeod. Groucho Marx, Horsefeathers, a wisecrack made to Huxley College’s outgoing president (1932)
“There are times when it is more courageous to be cowardly.”
—Norman Reilly Raine (1895–1971)
“Great writers arrive among us like new diseases—threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.”
—Craig Raine (b. 1944)