Bartlett's Book of AnecdotesLittle, Brown, 21. sept 2000 - 800 pages From Hank Aaron to King Zog, Mao Tse-Tung to Madonna, Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes features more than 2,000 people from around the world, past and present, in all fields. These short anecdotes provide remarkable insight into the human character. Ranging from the humorous to the tearful, they span classical history, recent politics, modern science and the arts. Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes is a gold mine for anyone who gives speeches, is doing research, or simply likes to browse. As an informal tour of history and human nature at its most entertaining & instructive, this is sure to be a perennial favorite for years to come. |
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... Churchill could call anecdotes " the gleaming toys of history . " In the transactions of biographers they function as petty cash . The eighteenth century also marked the beginning of the association of anecdotes with the wit of old men ...
... Churchill could call anecdotes " the gleaming toys of history . " In the transactions of biographers they function as petty cash . The eighteenth century also marked the beginning of the association of anecdotes with the wit of old men ...
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... Churchill ( but he was also a painter ) ; Lincoln ( but he was also a great writer ) ; Talleyrand . Money men are far less in evidence - though there is J. P. Morgan , of course , and one of our most profound and prescient anecdotes is ...
... Churchill ( but he was also a painter ) ; Lincoln ( but he was also a great writer ) ; Talleyrand . Money men are far less in evidence - though there is J. P. Morgan , of course , and one of our most profound and prescient anecdotes is ...
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... Churchill , Dorothy Parker , and Samuel Goldwyn became high church towers . Long before them came Talleyrand . He worked overtime ; it was said that he never fashioned so many brilliant mots during his life as he did after his death ...
... Churchill , Dorothy Parker , and Samuel Goldwyn became high church towers . Long before them came Talleyrand . He worked overtime ; it was said that he never fashioned so many brilliant mots during his life as he did after his death ...
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... CHURCHILL 7 ) is ( almost ) surely the great man's . Yet it has also been as- cribed to Senator Robert Taft , who could not have said it had the presidency come with it . The dress designer Edith Head , who knew Grace Kelly in Hollywood ...
... CHURCHILL 7 ) is ( almost ) surely the great man's . Yet it has also been as- cribed to Senator Robert Taft , who could not have said it had the presidency come with it . The dress designer Edith Head , who knew Grace Kelly in Hollywood ...
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Page 408 - Take care of my dear Lady Hamilton, Hardy take care of poor Lady Hamilton. Kiss me, Hardy," said he. Hardy knelt down and kissed his cheek; and Nelson: said, "Now I am satisfied. Thank God I have done my duty.
Page 411 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Page 217 - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
Page xxiii - Nor is it always in the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discerned ; but very often an action of small note, a short saying, or a jest, shall distinguish a person's real character more than the greatest sieges, or the most important battles.
Page 77 - Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be. The more she is engaged in her proper duties, the less leisure will she have for it, even as an accomplishment and a recreation.
Page 347 - Gentlemen, why don't you laugh? With the fearful strain that is upon me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die, and you need this medicine as much as I do.
Page 512 - Tristram' had appeared, Sterne asked a Yorkshire lady of fortune and condition, whether she had read his book. 'I have not, Mr. Sterne,' was the answer; ' and to be plain with you, I am informed it is not proper for female perusal.
Page 302 - I believe, Sir, you have a great many. Norway, too, has noble wild prospects ; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England !" This unexpected and pointed sally produced a roar of applause.
Page 507 - ... tweed trousers. I would have run to him, only I was a coward in the presence of such a mob - would have embraced him, only, he being an Englishman, I did not know how he would receive me; so I did what cowardice and false pride suggested was the best thing - walked deliberately to him, took off my hat, and said: 'Dr Livingstone, I presume?' 'YES,' said he, with a kind smile, lifting his cap slightly.
Page 208 - So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage leaf to make an apple pie ; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. " What