Alexander Woollcott Quotes:
Ocupation: Critic
Life: January 19, 1887 - January 23, 1943
Birthday: January 19
Death: January 23
famous quotes
There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.
source: - Alexander Woollcott (1951). “The Indispensable Woollcott”
Topics: Inspirational Life, Unimportant, Unimportant Things
The two oldest professions in the world — ruined by amateurs.
source: - Shouts and Murmurs "The Actor and the Streetwalker" (1922)
All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.
source: - "The Knock at the Stage Door". Reader's Digest, December 1933.
Topics: Funny, Food, Finding Happiness, Fattening, Illegal Things
Topics: Funny, Time, Insperational, Wishing For Things, Funny Motivational
The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.
source: - Address in Reply to His Majesty's Most Gracious Speech, hansard.millbanksystems.com. November 01, 1950. 
Topics: Tired, Government, Democracy
source: - Alexander Woollcott (1951). “The Indispensable Woollcott”
Topics: War, Sight, Cities, Speed Limits
Reading Proust is like bathing in someone else's dirty water.
Topics: Art, Reading, Dirty, Dirty Water, Bathing
There's nothing wrong with Oscar Levant - nothing a miracle won't cure.
Topics: Art, Miracle, Entertainment
There's absolutely nothing wrong with Oscar Levant that a miracle can't fix.
Topics: Personality, Miracle, Oscars
She was like a sinking ship firing on the rescuers.
source: - Alexander Woollcott (1951). “The Indispensable Woollcott”
Today just might be the best day to start seriously thinking about quitting smoking...
Topics: Encouragement, Thinking, Smoking
source: - "While Rome Burns". Book by Alexander Woollcott, 1934.
Topics: Mind, Bernard Shaw, Used
Topics: Art, Gun, Entertainment
