Wilson Mizner
Wilson Mizner
Wilson Miznerwas an American playwright, raconteur, and entrepreneur. His best-known plays are The Deep Purple, produced in 1910, and The Greyhound, produced in 1912. He was manager and co-owner of The Brown Derby restaurant in Los Angeles, California, and was affiliated with his brother, Addison Mizner, in a series of scams and picaresque misadventures that inspired Stephen Sondheim's musical Road Show...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDramatist
Date of Birth19 May 1876
CountryUnited States of America
I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own.
I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .'
Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton.
Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.
In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork.
He's a trellis for varicose veins.
Over in Hollywood they almost made a great picture, but they caught it in time.
What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.
The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.
Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.
There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.
I'd rather know a square guy than own a square mile.
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something.
I've known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, yet never had a thought.