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Alexander Woollcott

b: Red Bank, New Jersey, USA, Jan 19, 1887

d: New York, New York, USA, Jan 23, 1943

Alexander Humphreys Woollcott was an American critic and commentator for The New Yorker magazine, and a member of the Algonquin Round Table.

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All of the things I realy like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.

And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are; for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and at the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Verily, I say unto you, They have their reward.

His huff arrived and he departed in it.

I did not have much luck. Paid for my passage but not much over.

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

Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.

Nothing risque, nothing gained.

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

Then I suppose I should tell you about Lord Reading's recent marriage to a woman some forty years younger than himself. The London Times account of the wedding ended, unfortunately, with this sentence 'The bridegroom's gift to the bride was an antique pendant.'

There is absolutely nothing wrong with Oscar Levant that a miracle cannot fix.

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