Top 31 Quotes & Sayings by Alexander Woollcott

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Last updated on December 25, 2024.

Alexander Humphreys Woollcott was an American drama critic and commentator for The New Yorker magazine, a member of the Algonquin Round Table, an occasional actor and playwright, and a prominent radio personality.

American - Critic | January 19, 1887 - January 23, 1943

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Nothing risque, nothing gained.

Alexander Woollcott

There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.

Alexander Woollcott

I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.

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At 83 Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's.

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The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.

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His huff arrived and he departed in it.

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Everything I like is either illegal, immoral or fattening.

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All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.

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Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.

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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!

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Germany was the cause of Hitler as much as Chicago is responsible for the Chicago Tribune.

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Reading Proust is like bathing in someone else's dirty water.

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Mrs. Patrick Cambell is an aged British battleship sinking rapidly and firing every available gun on her rescuers.

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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.

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A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn't go.

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A broker is a man who runs your fortune into a shoestring.

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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.

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There's nothing wrong with Oscar Levant - nothing a miracle won't cure.

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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."

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Today just might be the best day to start seriously thinking about quitting smoking.

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Once in pre-war days, when curiously-bonneted women drivers were familiar sights at the taxi-wheels, I cried out to one in my dismay: "Is there no speed limit in this mad city?" "Oh, yes, monsieur," she answered sweetly over her shoulder, "but no one has ever succeeded in reaching it."

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She was like a sinking ship firing on the rescuers.

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Babies in silk hats playing with dynamite.

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