44 Quotes by Alexander Woollcott

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

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

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.

The two oldest professions in the world — ruined by amateurs.

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

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

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

There is no such thing in anyone’s life as an unimportant day.

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