31+ Alexander Woollcott Quotes On Education, Religion And Democracy

Alexander Woollcott was an American critic, essayist, playwright, and commentator for The New Yorker magazine. He was an influential member of the Algonquin Round Table, a group of writers, actors, and critics. Woollcott was known for his quick wit and caustic opinions, and was often lampooned by contemporary cartoonists. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Alexander Woollcott on education, religion, democracy.

Top 10 Alexander Woollcott Quotes

1. Character is made by what you stand for; reputation by what you fall for.
2. All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal, or fattening.
3. There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.
4. 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!
5. I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.
6. Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.
7. 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.
8. A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn't go.
9. The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it.
10. To all things clergic I am allergic.

Alexander Woollcott Image Quotes

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

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

Alexander Woollcott Short Quotes

• Nothing risque, nothing gained.
• The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.
• Germany was the cause of Hitler as much as Chicago is responsible for the Chicago Tribune.
• Today just might be the best day to start seriously thinking about quitting smoking.
• Babies in silk hats playing with dynamite.
• His huff arrived and he departed in it.
• There's absolutely nothing wrong with Oscar Levant that a miracle can't fix.
• She was like a sinking ship firing on the rescuers.
• You haven't lived until you died in New York.
• The two oldest professions in the world — ruined by amateurs.

Alexander Woollcott Quotes About Art

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

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

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

Alexander Woollcott Famous Quotes And Sayings

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

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

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. — Alexander Woollcott

Once in pre-war days, when curiously-bonneted women drivers were familiar sights at the taxi-wheels, I cried out to one in my dismay: "Is there no speed limit in this mad city?" "Oh, yes, monsieur," she answered sweetly over her shoulder, "but no one has ever succeeded in reaching it." — Alexander Woollcott

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

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." — Alexander Woollcott

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

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

Los Angeles is seven suburbs in search of a city. — Alexander Woollcott

Everything I like is either illegal, immoral or fattening. — Alexander Woollcott

Life Lessons by Alexander Woollcott

1. Alexander Woollcott taught us to be confident in our own opinions and to be unafraid to express them. He also taught us to be open-minded and to listen to the opinions of others. Finally, he taught us to be kind and generous to those around us, regardless of their background or beliefs.