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Top 25 Alexander Woollcott Quotes (2025 Update)

Alexander Woollcott Quote: “You haven’t lived until you died in New York.”

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

— Alexander Woollcott

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Alexander Woollcott Quote: “There is no such thing in anyone’s life as an unimportant day.”

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

— Alexander Woollcott

Alexander Woollcott Quote: “All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.”

3. “All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.”

— Alexander Woollcott

Alexander Woollcott Quote: “I’m tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn’t work. Of course it doesn’t work. We are supposed to work it.”

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

— Alexander Woollcott

Alexander Woollcott Quote: “A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn’t go.”

5. “A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn’t go.”

— Alexander Woollcott

Alexander Woollcott Quote: “Los Angeles is seven suburbs in search of a city.”

6. “Los Angeles is seven suburbs in search of a city.”

— Alexander Woollcott

Alexander Woollcott Quote: “The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it.”

7. “The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it.”

— Alexander Woollcott

Alexander Woollcott Quote: “The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.”

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

— Alexander Woollcott

Alexander Woollcott Quote: “The two oldest professions in the world – ruined by amateurs.”

9. “The two oldest professions in the world – ruined by amateurs.”

— Alexander Woollcott

Alexander Woollcott Quote: “Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn’t spend half our time wishing.”

10. “Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn’t spend half our time wishing.”

— Alexander Woollcott

Alexander Woollcott Quote: “She was like a sinking ship firing on the rescuers.”

11. “She was like a sinking ship firing on the rescuers.”

— Alexander Woollcott

Alexander Woollcott Quote: “Nothing risque, nothing gained.”

12. “Nothing risque, nothing gained.”

— Alexander Woollcott

Alexander Woollcott Quote: “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.””

13. “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

Alexander Woollcott Quote: “To all things clergic I am allergic.”

14. “To all things clergic I am allergic.”

— Alexander Woollcott

Alexander Woollcott Quote: “There’s nothing wrong with Oscar Levant – nothing a miracle won’t cure.”

15. “There’s nothing wrong with Oscar Levant – nothing a miracle won’t cure.”

— Alexander Woollcott

Alexander Woollcott Quote: “Babies in silk hats playing with dynamite.”

16. “Babies in silk hats playing with dynamite.”

— Alexander Woollcott

Alexander Woollcott Quote: “Reading Proust is like bathing in someone else’s dirty water.”

17. “Reading Proust is like bathing in someone else’s dirty water.”

— Alexander Woollcott

Alexander Woollcott Quote: “Today just might be the best day to start seriously thinking about quitting smoking...”

18. “Today just might be the best day to start seriously thinking about quitting smoking...”

— Alexander Woollcott

Alexander Woollcott Quote: “One listens to one’s lawyer prattle on as long as one can stand it and then signs where indicated.”

19. “One listens to one’s lawyer prattle on as long as one can stand it and then signs where indicated.”

— Alexander Woollcott

Alexander Woollcott Quote: “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.”

20. “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

Alexander Woollcott Quote: “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.”

21. “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.”

— Alexander Woollcott

Alexander Woollcott Quote: “His huff arrived and he departed in it.”

22. “His huff arrived and he departed in it.”

— Alexander Woollcott

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

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

— Alexander Woollcott

Alexander Woollcott Quote: “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!”

24. “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!”

— Alexander Woollcott

Alexander Woollcott Quote: “A broker is a man who runs your fortune into a shoestring.”

25. “A broker is a man who runs your fortune into a shoestring.”

— Alexander Woollcott

Alexander Woollcott Quote: “Germany was the cause of Hitler as much as Chicago is responsible for the Chicago Tribune.”

26. “Germany was the cause of Hitler as much as Chicago is responsible for the Chicago Tribune.”

— Alexander Woollcott

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