Creative Quotations from Alexander Woollcott (1887-1943)

Creative Quotations from . . .

Alexander Woollcott
(1887-1943) born on Jan 19

US novelist, critic, actor. He was known for his acerbic wit and his book "The Man Who Came to Dinner;" self-appointed leader of the Algonquin Round Table.

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There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.

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

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

The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.

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.

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	In <a href="http://www.cyber-nation.com/cgi-bin/victory/quotations/qlreferral/quotelib.pl?id=10115">The Ultimate Success Quotations Library</a>, 1997.
R:	In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
A:	"The Knock at the Stage Door," Quoted in: "Wit's End," ed. Robert E. Drennan, 1968.
N:	In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
K:	Referring to George Bernard Shaw IN "While Rome Burns."