Guinan Quotes & Sayings

Success has killed more men than bullets. — Texas Guinan

Feuds are forgiven, if not forgotten, in the hour of death

("The Watcher O' The Dead") — John Guinan

Marriage is all right, but I think it's carrying love a little bit too far. — Texas Guinan

A guy who'd cheat on his wife would cheat at cards. — Texas Guinan

There is no man but carries in his breast the makings of a story, which, though never told, comes more home to him, than any the mind of another man can find and fashion in words

("The Watcher O' The Dead") — John Guinan

He bought me so many orchids that I looked like a well-kept grave. — Texas Guinan

every man has his own story, his own agony

("The Watcher O' The Dead") — John Guinan

A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country. — Mary Louise Cecilia "Texas" Guinan

I would rather have a square inch of New York than all the rest of the world. — Texas Guinan

Better a square foot of New York than all the rest of the world in a lump - better a lamppost on Broadway than the brightest star in the sky. — Texas Guinan

Does a special love withstand the test of time? Like the grass that overcomes a 500lb slab of sidewalk concrete or the proverbial flower that shatters the stone, can Christ overcome the barriers and deep darkness of mortal moments? — Rob Guinan

The ride had begun.
The theatre and club spectaculars seemed to stick up into the sky at all sorts of crazy angles, probably because most of them were planted diagonally on rooftops. Follow Thru, Whoopee, Show Boat, El Fay Club, Club Richman, Texas Guinan's. It gave the town the appearance of standing on its ear. ("The Number's Up") — Cornell Woolrich