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[You look like] a dishonest Abe Lincoln.

— Alexander Woollcott

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Describing Harold Ross, fellow Round Table member and founder of The New Yorker, as quoted in The American Treasury, 1455-1955 (1955) by Clifton Fadiman, Charles Lincoln Van Doren, p. 461; variants of this quote begin "He looks like..." "He looked like..." etc.

More quotes by Alexander Woollcott

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.

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