Quotes from Alexander Woollcott

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

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

The two oldest professions in the world—ruined by amateurs.

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

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

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

The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it.

To all things clergic I am allergic.

One listens to one's lawyer prattle on as long as one can stand it and then signs where indicated.

Nothing risque, nothing gained.

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

You haven't lived until you died in New York.

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

Los Angeles is seven suburbs in search of a city.

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

I sometimes wish I had lived in my grandfather's time instead of today. The pattern of life was less complicated then. This was a cleaner, greener land, and a man who took to the highroad might breathe, instead of gasoline vapors, a forgotten boon called air.

Number 7 opened last night. It was misnamed by five.

Nothing risque, nothing gained.

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

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

Everything I like is either illegal, immoral or fattening.

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!

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

His huff arrived and he departed in it.