John Barrymore Quotes


"You can't drown yourself in drink. I've tried, you float."
- John Barrymore
"Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble."
- John Barrymore
(Related: Time, Causes, Trouble)

"America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin For one dollar and use it up in two weeks."
- John Barrymore
(Related: America, Country)

"Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?"
- John Barrymore
(Related: Money, End)

"You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony."
- John Barrymore
"When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves."
- John Barrymore
(Related: Boxing, Will)

"You can only be as good as you dare to be bad."
- John Barrymore
"The good die young, because they see it's no use living if you have got to be good."
- John Barrymore
(Related: Living)

"My wife was too beautiful for words, but not for arguments."
- John Barrymore
(Related: Wife, Arguments, Words)

"My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go anywhere."
- John Barrymore
(Related: Mother, Wife, Will)

"In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief."
- John Barrymore
(Related: Man)

"If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner."
- John Barrymore
(Related: Finance, Company)

"Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him."
- John Barrymore
"Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open."
- John Barrymore
(Related: Happiness, Open)

"I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free."
- John Barrymore
(Related: Wonder)

"I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning."
- John Barrymore
(Related: Will)

"I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom."
- John Barrymore
(Related: Wisdom, Wife, Thinking, Wives)

"Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock."
- John Barrymore
(Related: Love, Meeting)

"The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time."
- John Barrymore
(Related: Life, Time, Women, Trouble)