25 Quotes by Alexander Woollcott
Alexander Woollcott was an American writer and critic in the early 20th century, best known for his work as a member of the Algonquin Round Table, a group of writers and intellectuals who met regularly in the 1920s to exchange witticisms and opinions. Woollcott was a prolific writer, producing books, plays, and articles for newspapers and magazines. He was also a popular radio personality, with his own show on NBC in the 1930s. Known for his sharp wit and humor, Woollcott had a lasting impact on American literature and popular culture. (Bio)
Alexander Woollcott Quotes
There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day. (Meaning)
I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it. (Meaning)
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.
All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.
The two oldest professions in the world — ruined by amateurs.
Nothing risque, nothing gained.
The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it.
To all things clergic I am allergic.
His huff arrived and he departed in it.
A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn't go.
It comes from the likes of you! Take what you can get! Grab the chances as they come along! Act in hallways! Sing in doorways! Dance in cellars!
One listens to one's lawyer prattle on as long as one can stand it and then signs where indicated.
At 83, George Bernard Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's.
Los Angeles is seven suburbs in search of a city.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with Oscar Levant that a miracle can't fix.
Reading Proust is like bathing in someone else's dirty water.
All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening.
It was Mrs. Campbell, for instance, who, on a celebrated occasion, threw her companion into a flurry by describing her recent marriage as "the deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-longue."
A broker is a man who runs your fortune into a shoestring.
You haven't lived until you died in New York.
Mrs. Patrick Cambell is an aged British battleship sinking rapidly and firing every available gun on her rescuers.
She was like a sinking ship firing on the rescuers.
The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.
I count it a high honor to belong to a profession in which the good men write every paragraph, every sentence, every line, as lovingly as any Addison or Steele, and do so in full regard that by tomorrow it will have been burned, or used, if at all, to line a shelf.
Today just might be the best day to start seriously thinking about quitting smoking.
― Alexander Woollcott Quotes
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