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
Most hard-boiled people are half-baked.
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.