Alexander WoollcottThinkers

Cricket (sport) is a sport whose dullness is its whole point. To go to a match in order to be thrilled is as stupid as to go to a Chekhov play in search of melodrama.

A Diplomat is a baby in silk hats playing with dynamite.

Dorothy Parker is a combination of Little Nell and Lady Macbeth.

The Englishman is a person with an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.

Marcel Proust is a writer who to read feels like bathing in someone else's dirty water.

A Stockbroker is a man who runs your fortune into a shoe-string.

Town is where there is no place to go where you shouldn't be.