It was Mrs. Campbell, for instance, who, on a celebrated occasion, threw her companion into a flurry by describing her recent marriage as "the deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-longue."
I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it. - Alexander Woollcott
I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.
- Alexander Woollcott
Nothing risque, nothing gained. - Alexander Woollcott
Nothing risque, nothing gained.
The two oldest professions in the world — ruined by amateurs. - Alexander Woollcott
The two oldest professions in the world — ruined by amateurs.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing. - Alexander Woollcott
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.
Reading Proust is like bathing in someone else's dirty water. - Alexander Woollcott
Reading Proust is like bathing in someone else's dirty water.
To all things clergic I am allergic. - Alexander Woollcott
To all things clergic I am allergic.
The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it. - Alexander Woollcott
The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it.
A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn't go. - Alexander Woollcott
A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn't go.
All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening. - Alexander Woollcott
All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.
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