Alexander Woollcott

Alexander Woollcott
Alexander Humphreys Woollcottwas an American critic and commentator for The New Yorker magazine and a member of the Algonquin Round Table...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth19 January 1887
CityRed Bank, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
religion allergic all-things
To all things clergic I am allergic.
art reading dirty
Reading Proust is like bathing in someone else's dirty water.
sex risque
Nothing risque, nothing gained.
new-york havens died
You haven't lived until you died in New York.
cities los-angeles seven
Los Angeles is seven suburbs in search of a city.
beautiful art play
The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it.
flying calm ability
The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.
doorways likes chance
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!
art gun entertainment
Mrs. Patrick Cambell is an aged British battleship sinking rapidly and firing every available gun on her rescuers.
funny time insperational
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.
funny humor places-to-go
A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn't go.
tired government democracy
I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.
mind bernard-shaw used
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.
funny food illegal-things
All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.