Alexander Woollcott Quotes

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

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

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

To all things clergic I am allergic.

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

Always a godfather - never a god!

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!

Everything I like is either illegal, immoral or fattening.

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

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