Bert de Vries

Famous quotes containing the words bert and/or vries:

“I tell you, you’re ruining that boy. You’re ruining him. Why can’t you do as much for me?”
—S.J. Perelman, U.S. screenwriter, Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, and Norman Z. McLeod. Groucho Marx, Horsefeathers, a wisecrack made as Huxley College president to Connie, the college widow (Thelma Todd)

“And she, by passion once demented
MThat woman out of Botticelli—
She brews and bottles, unfermented,
The stupid and abiding jelly.”
—Peter De Vries (b. 1910)