Best 24 quotes of Alexander Woollcott on MyQuotes

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

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

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

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.

Babies in silk hats playing with dynamite.

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

His huff arrived and he departed in it.

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.

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

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.

Los Angeles is seven suburbs in search of a city.

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

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

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

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

She was like a sinking ship firing on the rescuers.

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

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

There's absolutely nothing wrong with Oscar Levant that a miracle can't fix.

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

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

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

Today just might be the best day to start seriously thinking about quitting smoking.

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