Alexander Woollcott Quotes

To all things clergic, I am allergic.

clergy

She is so odd a blend of Little Nell and Lady Macbeth.

Everything I like is either illegal, immoral or fattening.

dieting

I must get out of these wet clothes, and into a dry martini!

drinking

Character is made by what you stand for; reputation by what you fall for.

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

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

work

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

democracy civic duty

It has been said that she died in harness.  That expression of a plodder overtaken by death is inadequate for so gallant, so defiantly twinkling an exit.  She was a boat that went to the bottom with its orchestra playing gaily.

actors

I count it a high honor to belong to a trade in which the good men write each piece, each paragraph, each sentence, as lovingly as any Addison, and do so in the full knowledge that by noon the next day it will have been used to light a fire or saved, if at all, to line a shelf.

columnists