Quotes about Silliness

Rufus T. Firefly: Gentlemen, Chicolini here may talk like an idiot and look like an idiot, but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot.

- Groucho Marx (as Rufus T. Firefly) in Duck Soup (1933)

Rodolfo Tonetti: Your wife is save with Tonetti. He prefers spaghetti!

- Erik Rhodes (as Rodolfo Tonetti) in The Gay Divorcee (1934)

The Waiter: Whumsical is more Whimsical than Whamsical.

- Eric Blore (as The waiter) in The Gay Divorcee (1934)

[reading Babe's first column about Deeds]
MacWade: "At two o'clock this morning, Mr. Deeds held up traffic while he fed a bagful of doughnuts to a horse. When asked why he was doing it, he replied, 'I just wanted to see how many doughnuts this horse would eat before he asked for a cup of coffee.'"

- George Bancroft (as MacWade) in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)

Chicolini: Now I aska you one. What has a trunk, but no key, weighs 2,000 pounds and lives in a circus?
Prosecutor: That's irrelevant.
Chicolini: Irrelephant? Hey, that'sa that answer. There's a whole lot of irrelephants in the circus.

- Chico Marx (as Chicolini) in Duck Soup (1933)

Mrs. Teasdale: Notables from every country are gathered here in your honor. This is a gala day for you.
Rufus T. Firefly: Well, a gal a day is enough for me. I don't think I could handle any more.

- Groucho Marx (as Rufus T. Firefly) in Duck Soup (1933)

Ambassador Trentino: Have you been trailing Firefly?
Chicolini: Have we been trailing Firefly? Why, my partner, he's got a nose just like a bloodhound.
Ambassador Trentino: Oh really?
Chicolini: Yeah, and the rest of his face don't look so good either.

- Chico Marx (as Chicolini) in Duck Soup (1933)

Otis B. Driftwood: That woman? Do you know why I sat with her? Because she reminded me of you.
Mrs. Claypool: Really?
Otis B. Driftwood: Of course, that's why I'm sitting here with you. Because you remind me of you. Your eyes, your throat, your lips! Everything about you reminds me of you. Except you.

- Groucho Marx (as Otis B. Driftwood) in A Night at the Opera (1935)

Otis B. Driftwood: It's all right, that's in every contract. That's what they call a sanity clause.
[Fiorello laughs loudly]
Fiorello: You can't fool me! There ain't no Sanity Claus!

- Chico Marx (as Fiorello) in A Night at the Opera (1935)

Henderson: You live here all alone?
Otis B. Driftwood: Yes. Just me and my memories. I'm practically a hermit.
Henderson: Oh. A hermit. I notice the table's set for four.
Otis B. Driftwood: That's nothing - my alarm clock is set for eight. That doesn't prove a thing.

- Groucho Marx (as Otis B. Driftwood) in A Night at the Opera (1935)