Alexander Woollcott
Alexander Woollcott
Alexander Humphreys Woollcottwas an American critic and commentator for The New Yorker magazine and a member of the Algonquin Round Table...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth19 January 1887
CityRed Bank, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
Alexander Woollcott quotes about
american-critic either illegal
All the things I really like are either immoral, illegal or fattening.
act chances dance grab likes sing
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!
two world ruined
The two oldest professions in the world — ruined by amateurs.
funny food illegal-things
All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.
mind bernard-shaw used
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.
funny humor places-to-go
A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn't go.
funny time insperational
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.
doorways likes chance
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!
religion allergic all-things
To all things clergic I am allergic.
marriage bed companion
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."
departed luck
His huff arrived and he departed in it.
running men fortune
A broker is a man who runs your fortune into a shoestring.
writing men good-man
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.
illegal-things fattening illegal
Everything I like is either illegal, immoral or fattening.