All Alexander Woollcott Quotes
- There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day. Anyone
- She was like a sinking ship firing on the rescuers. Firing
- Today just might be the best day to start seriously thinking about quitting smoking... Best
- 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… Addison
- Germany was the cause of Hitler as much as Chicago is responsible for the Chicago Tribune. Cause
- 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. Anyone
- Los Angeles is seven suburbs in search of a city. Angeles
- The two oldest professions in the world — ruined by amateurs. Amateurs
- A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn't go. Go
- The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm. Ability
- There's absolutely nothing wrong with Oscar Levant that a miracle can't fix. Absolutely
- His huff arrived and he departed in it. Arrived
- 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!… Act
- One listens to one's lawyer prattle on as long as one can stand it and then signs where indicated. 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,… Bed
- To all things clergic I am allergic. All
- 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… Answered
- I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it. Course
- All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening. All
- Everything I like is either illegal, immoral or fattening. Either Illegal
- Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing. Achievement
- Nothing risque, nothing gained. Gained
- You haven't lived until you died in New York. Died
- The real crime is the corporate hijacking of our democracy. Corporate