Alexander Woollcott quotes

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

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

" Nothing risque, nothing gained. " # Gain

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

" The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it. " # Acting and Actors # Beauty # Walking

" I have no need of your God-damned sympathy. I only wish to be entertained by some of your grosser reminiscences. " # Arts and Artists # Sympathy # God

" 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." " # Cities and City Life # War # Love

" The two oldest professions in the worlds - ruined by amateurs. " # Writers and Writing # Politicians and Politics # Arts and Artists

" At 83 Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's. " # Leaders and Leadership

" Germany was the cause of Hitler as much as Chicago is responsible for the Chicago Tribune. " # Critics and Criticism # Responsibility # Race and Racism