Organ Grinder Quotes & Sayings

Why should I question the monkey when I can question the organ grinder. — Aneurin Bevan

Frank's audience doesn't care if a girl singer, a comic or an organ grinder with a monkey opens the show. They are there to see HIM. — Nancy Sinatra

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room. — Winston S. Churchill

It is in the twenties that the actual momentum of life begins to slacken, and it is a simple soul indeed to whom as many things are as significant and meaningful at thirty as at ten years before. At thirty an organ-grinder is a more or less a moth eaten man who grinds an organ - and once he was an organ-grinder! The unmistakable stigma of humanity touches all those impersonal and beautiful things that only youth ever grasps in their impersonal glory. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Why get rid of Chamberlain to put in Halifax? It's like getting rid of the organ-grinder to put in the monkey. — Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle Of Blackburn

If an opera cannot be played by an organ grinder, it's not going to achieve immortality. — Thomas Beecham

Lucinda," she finally returned most cordially, "if I were to be marooned on a desert island for the remainder of my days and must needs choose between your company and that of an organ-grinder's flea-bitten monkey, I should not hesitate a moment before opting for the latter. — Kasey Michaels

I am not going to spend any time whatsoever in attacking the Foreign Secretary. If we complain about the tune, there is no reason to attack the monkey when the organ grinder is present. — Aneurin Bevan