Alexander Woollcott Quotes - Page 2

• Once in pre-war days, when curiously-bonneted women drivers were familiar sights at the taxi-wheels, I cried out to one in my dismay: "Is there no speed limit in this mad city?"
  "Oh, yes, monsieur," she answered sweetly over her shoulder, "but no one has ever succeeded in reaching it."

  Alexander Woollcott

  War, Sight, Cities

  "The Paris Taxi-Driver Considered as an Artist". "Enchanted Aisles". Book by Alexander Woollcott, 1924.

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• Babies in silk hats playing with dynamite.

  Alexander Woollcott

  Baby, Government, Hats

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• Germany was the cause of Hitler as much as Chicago is responsible for the Chicago Tribune.

  Alexander Woollcott

  Cities, Chicago, Germany

  Radio broadcast, 23 Jan. 1943.Woollcott's last words before the microphone.

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• There's nothing wrong with Oscar Levant - nothing a miracle won't cure.

  Alexander Woollcott

  Art, Miracle, Oscars

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