Top 30 Quotes & Sayings by Walter Winchell

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American journalist Walter Winchell.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Walter Winchell was a syndicated American newspaper gossip columnist and radio news commentator. Originally a vaudeville performer, Winchell began his newspaper career as a Broadway reporter, critic and columnist for New York tabloids. He rose to national celebrity in the 1930s with Hearst newspaper chain syndication and a popular radio program. He was known for an innovative style of gossipy staccato news briefs, jokes and Jazz Age slang. Biographer Neal Gabler claimed that his popularity and influence "turned journalism into a form of entertainment".

American - Journalist | April 7, 1897 - February 20, 1972

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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.

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Nothing recedes like success.

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Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.

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I never lost a friend I wanted to keep.

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Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.

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The same thing happened today that happened yesterday, only to different people.

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

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Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

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An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.

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Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.

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We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.

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A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.

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Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.

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Today's gossip is tomorrow's headline.

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I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.

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The best way to get along is never to forgive an enemy or forget a friend.

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She's been on more laps than a napkin.

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Broadway is a main artery of New York life - the hardened artery.

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Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.

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It's a sure sign of summer if the chair gets up when you do.

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Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. America from border to border and coast to coast and all the ships at sea. Let's go to press.

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He (Alexander Woollcott) always praises the first production of each season, being reluctant to stone the first cast.

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The Chicago mobs... They practiced their own perverted form of "survival of the fittest." Where the strong clawed their way to the top of a criminal empire. And the weak died in a hail of machine gun bullets.

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