44 Quotes by Alexander Woollcott

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

His huff arrived and he departed in it.

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.

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!

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!

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."

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

Babies in silk hats playing with dynamite.

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.