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Wikipedia Summary for Alexander Woollcott
Alexander Humphreys Woollcott (January 19, 1887 – January 23, 1943) was an American drama critic and commentator for The New Yorker magazine, a member of the Algonquin Round Table, an occasional actor and playwright, and a prominent radio personality.
Woollcott was the inspiration for Sheridan Whiteside, the main character in the play The Man Who Came to Dinner (1939) by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, and for the far less likable character Waldo Lydecker in the book Laura, later made into a film in 1944. Woollcott was convinced he was the inspiration for his friend Rex Stout's brilliant, eccentric detective Nero Wolfe, an idea that Stout denied.
Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.
To all things clergic I am allergic.
Babies in silk hats playing with dynamite.
She was like a sinking ship firing on the rescuers.
The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it.
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.
A broker is a man who runs your fortune into a shoestring.
Reading Proust is like bathing in someone else's dirty water.
All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening.
A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn't go.
Today just might be the best day to start seriously thinking about quitting smoking.
You haven't lived until you died in New York.
Los Angeles is seven suburbs in search of a city.
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!
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.
The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.
Germany was the cause of Hitler as much as Chicago is responsible for the Chicago Tribune.
Nothing risque, nothing gained.
I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.
His huff arrived and he departed in it.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.
There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.
Everything I like is either illegal, immoral or fattening.
All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.