Alexander Woollcott Quotes

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• There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.
• She was like a sinking ship firing on the rescuers.
• Today just might be the best day to start seriously thinking about quitting smoking...
• 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…
• Germany was the cause of Hitler as much as Chicago is responsible for the Chicago Tribune.
• 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.
• The two oldest professions in the world — ruined by amateurs.
• A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn't go.
• The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.
• There's absolutely nothing wrong with Oscar Levant that a miracle can't fix.
• His huff arrived and he departed in it.
• 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!…
• One listens to one's lawyer prattle on as long as one can stand it and then signs where indicated.
• 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,…
• To all things clergic I am allergic.
• 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…
• I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.
• All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.
• Everything I like is either illegal, immoral or fattening.

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