Adolphe Menjou famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

He has a heart of gold - only harder.
-- Adolphe Menjou

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Aren't grown up people just little children at heart?
-- Adolphe Menjou

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Clothes have always had a wonderful influence on my physical well-being as well as my self-assurance. All I have to do to make me feel like a new and younger man is to order three new suits of clothes. My fur-lined overcoat gave me such a glow of health that very shortly after acquiring it I was able to enjoy the hazards of a Gargantuan studio cocktail party without a single twinge of pain.
-- Adolphe Menjou

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I'm a Red-baiter; I'm a witch-hunter if the witches are Communists.
-- Adolphe Menjou

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My success has been as full of luck as a crapshooter's dream.
-- Adolphe Menjou

#Dream #Luck
It was my mustache that landed jobs for me. In those silent-film days it was the mark of a villain. When I realized they had me pegged as a foreign nobleman type I began to live the part, too. I bought a pair of white spats, an ascot tie and a walking stick.
-- Adolphe Menjou

#Jobs #White #Ties

It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.
If I can sell tickets to my movies like Red Sonja or Last Action Hero, you know I can sell just about anything.
When asked "If you could meet any famous person living or dead," I always ask whether the dead person would be alive again when I meet them.
Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.
The safe place lies in obedience to God's Word, singleness of heart and holy vigilance.
The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources and sufficiency of God.
When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.
Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
It may be that today gold has become the exclusive ruler of life, but the time will come when man will again bow down before a higher god.
A road need not be paved in gold to find treasures at its end.

Adolphe Menjou famous quotes

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