Frases de Alexander Woollcott
Alexander Woollcott
Data de nascimento: 19. Janeiro 1887
Data de falecimento: 23. Janeiro 1943
Alexander Humphreys Woollcott foi um crítico e comentarista do 'The New Yorker', e membro do 'Algonquin Round Table'.
Citações Alexander Woollcott
„All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening.“
— Alexander Woollcott
"The Knock at the Stage Door" in Reader's Digest (December 1933); also in [http://books.google.com.br/books?id=Nm3jbg0JalMC&pg=PA24&dq=All+the+things+I+really+like+to+do+are+either+illegal,+immoral,+or+fattening A Dictionary of Catch Phrases : British and American, from the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day (1986)] by Eric Partridge and Paul Beale, .
„Well, if I were thus rationed in this article and could have but one adjective for George Gershwin, that adjective would be "ingenuous." Ingenuous at and about his piano. Once an occasional composer named Oscar Levant stood beside that piano while those sure, sinewy, catlike Gershwin fingers beat their brilliant drum-fire—the tumultuous cascade of the "Rhapsody In Blue," the amorous languor of "The Man I Love," the impish glee of "Fascinating Rhythm," the fine, jaunty, dust-spurning scorn of "Strike Up the Band." If the performer was familiar with the work of any other composer, he gave no evidence of it. Levant (who, by the way, makes a fleeting appearance in the new Dashlell Hammett book, under the guise of Levi Oscant) could be heard mutterIng under his breath, "An evening with Gershwin Is a Gershwln evening."
"I wonder," said our young composer dreamily, "if my music will be played a hundred years from now."
"It certainly will be," said the bitter Levant,"if you are still around."“
— Alexander Woollcott
"George the Ingenuous" in Cosmopolitan (November 1933); reprinted in [https://books.google.com/books?id=ATcjgQTx0uIC&pg=PA45#v=onepage&q&f=false Ch. IV: "'...A Young Colossus...'"] from Gershwin Remembered (1992) by Edward Jablonski, pp. 44-45
„[You look like] a dishonest Abe Lincoln.“
— Alexander Woollcott
Describing Harold Ross, fellow Round Table member and founder of The New Yorker, as quoted in The American Treasury, 1455-1955 (1955) by Clifton Fadiman, Charles Lincoln Van Doren, p. 461; variants of this quote begin "He looks like..." "He looked like..." etc.
„I must get out of these wet clothes and into a dry martini.“
— Alexander Woollcott
Reported as a misattribution in Paul F. Boller, Jr., and John George, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, & Misleading Attributions (1989), p. 132.
„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
"The Paris Taxi-Driver Considered as an Artist," in Enchanted Aisles (1924).
„I've never had the impertinence to be sorry for Helen Keller. I'd as soon be sorry for Niagara Falls. But now as I bring the story up to date, I'm shriveled with shame when I recall that at times in my life — my easy life — I've actually been sorry for myself. You too? We've got our nerve, haven't we?“
— Alexander Woollcott
[http://www.afb.org/Section.asp?Documentid=968 Radio Memorial] for Anne Sullivan Macy (1936).
„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 Woollcott
Referring to George Bernard Shaw in While Rome Burns (1934).
„The two oldest professions in the world — ruined by amateurs.“
— Alexander Woollcott
On actors and prostitutes, from his column, as republished in Shouts and Murmurs: Echoes of a Thousand and One First Nights (1922), p. 57.
