Alexander Woollcott Quotes

1887–1943 United States

Alexander Woollcott (January 19, 1887 – January 23, 1943) was an American critic and journalist known for his involvement in the Algonquin Round Table and his writings in The New Yorker magazine.

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Also known as: Alexander Woolcott, Woollcott, Alexander

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

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

At 83 Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's.

Referring to George Bernard Shaw in While Rome Burns (1934)

I have no need of your God-damned sympathy. I only wish to be entertained by some of your grosser reminiscences.

Letter to Rex O'Malley (1942)

At the Algonquin Round Table, as Woollcott was autographing one of his books and enjoying being the center of attention.

He was the kind of man who kept a diagram showing where you sat when you dined with him and what you ate, lest he serve you the same dish when you came again.

Introduction to The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (1939)

[You look like] a dishonest Abe Lincoln.

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

Misattributed

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

Attributed various sources. Reported as unverified in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alexander Woollcott (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.