Shelley Winters
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Alexander Humphreys Woollcottwas 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 two fictional characters.
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About the Alexander Woollcott
Alexander Humphreys Woollcottwas 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 two fictional characters. The first was Sheridan Whiteside, the caustic but charming main character in the play The Man Who Came to Dinnerby George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, later made into a film in 1942. The second was the snobbish, vitriolic columnist Waldo Lydecker in the novel 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.
11 Quotes by Alexander Woollcott
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Nothing risque, nothing gained.
Alexander WoollcottAmerican critic (1887-1943)
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All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.
Alexander WoollcottAmerican critic (1887-1943)
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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!
Alexander WoollcottAmerican critic (1887-1943)
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Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn’t spend half our time wishing.
Alexander WoollcottAmerican critic (1887-1943)
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There is no such thing in anyone’s life as an unimportant day.
Alexander WoollcottAmerican critic (1887-1943)
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Germany was the cause of Hitler as much as Chicago is responsible for the Chicago Tribune.
Alexander WoollcottAmerican critic (1887-1943)
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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.
Alexander WoollcottAmerican critic (1887-1943)
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Everything I like is either illegal, immoral or fattening.
Alexander WoollcottAmerican critic (1887-1943)
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The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.
Alexander WoollcottAmerican critic (1887-1943)
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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 WoollcottAmerican critic (1887-1943)
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His huff arrived and he departed in it.
Alexander WoollcottAmerican critic (1887-1943)