Quotes from Alexander Woollcott

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

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

Nothing risqué, nothing gained.

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

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

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

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

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

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