95 Quotes by Oscar Levant

Talent’s like a baby. Wrap it up in wool and it goes to sleep.

A pun is the lowest form of humor – when you don’t think of it first.

I’m controversial. My friends either dislike me or hate me.

I’m a concert pianist, that’s a pretentious way of saying I’m unemployed at the moment.

When I appeared before the draft board examiner during World War II, he asked me if I thought I could kill. “I don’t know about strangers,” I replied, “but friends, certainly.”

Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you’ll find the real tinsel underneath.

I never watch the Dinah Shore show- I’m a diabetic.

Harpo, she’s a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.

I’ve given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.