Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes
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Burton, Richard, 2
De Gaulle, Charles, 2
Grey, Edward, 2
Lindemann, Frederick Alexander, 1
Pétain, Philippe, 2
Stalin, Joseph, 2, 3
Wavell, Archibald Percival, 1
Chwolson, Daniel Abramovich
Cibber, Colley
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Cimabue, Giovanni
Giotto, 2
Cimon
Cinque, Joseph
Claire, Ina
Clairmont, Claire
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, 1
Clark, George Rogers
Clark, Mark
Clarke, Sir Caspar Purdon
Morgan, J. P., Sr., 4
Claudel, Paul
Gide, André, 1
Claudius
Nero, 1
Clay, Cassius Marcellus, Sr.
Clay, Henry
Clemenceau, Georges
Paderewski, Ignace Jan, 5
Clemens, James Ross
Twain, Mark, 13
Clement VII
Michelangelo Buonarroti, 2
Cleopatra
Cleveland, Frances Folsom
Cleveland, Grover
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 1
Clinton, William Jefferson
Dole, Robert, 4
Clive, Baron Robert
Clurman, Harold
Coates, Robert M.
Ross, Harold, 8
Cobb, Irvin S.
Cobb, Ty
Rose, Pete, 4
Cochrane, Sir Alexander
Jackson, Andrew, 3
Cocteau, Jean
Chanel, Coco, 1
Diaghilev, Sergei, 2, 3
Coghill, Nevill
Lewis, C. S., 2
Cohalan, Daniel F.
Wilson, Woodrow, 4
Cohan, George M.
Cohen, Morris Raphael
Cohn, Harry
Mankiewicz, Herman J., 1
Marx, Groucho, 8
Cohn, Jack
Cohn, Harry, 2
Coke, Sir Edward
Colavito, Rocky
Colbert, Claudette
Coward, Noël, 6
Lang, George, 1
Cole, Dr. Harry
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Lamb, Charles, 6
Colette
Collins, Joan
Collins, Michael
Collins, Wilkie
Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1
Colte, Jane
More, Thomas, 1
Coltrane, John
Davis, Miles, 2
Columbus, Christopher
Wilde, Oscar, 3
Compton, Arthur
Fermi, Enrico, 1
Comte, Auguste
Conant, James B.
Fermi, Enrico, 1
Condorcet, Marie Antoine de Caritat de
Confucius
Congreve, William
Conn, Billy
Louis, Joe, 1, 4
Connelly, Marc
Connery, Sean
Reynolds, Burt, 1
Connolly, Cyril
Conrad, Barnaby
Coward, Noël, 9
Margaret, Princess, 1
Constable, John
Constantine (the Great)
Conti, Prince Louis-Armand de
Cook, Thomas
Cooke, Alistair
Eden, Anthony, 1
Stevenson, Adlai, 4
Coolidge, Calvin
Hoover, Herbert, 1
Cooper, Lady Diana
Coward, Noël, 3
Lowell, Robert, 1
Cooper, Gary
Cooper, Dame Gladys
Coote, Robert, 1
Cooper, James Fenimore
Cooper, Sir William
Coote, Robert
Cope, Edward Drinker
Copland, Aaron
Coppée, François Edouard Joachim
Coquelin
Wilde, Oscar, 4
Corday, Charlotte
Corelli, Franco
Nilsson, Birgit Marta, 1
Corelli, Marie
Victoria, 10
Cornelia
Cornelius Dolabella
Cleopatra, 1
Cornett, Leanza
Corot, Jean-Baptiste Camille
Corrigan, Douglas
Cortéz, Hernando
Charles V, 2
Cosimo III
Fagiuoli, Giovanni Battista, 1
Cotten, Elizabeth
Cottin, Emile
Clemenceau, Georges, 9
Courteline, Georges
Coward, Sir Noël
Braithwaite, Dame Lilian, 1
Churchill, Randolph, 1
Elizabeth, Queen Mother, 4
Olivier, Laurence, 2
Ross, Harold, 12
Cowell, Henry
Ruggles, Carl, 1
Cowl, Jane
Cox, Channing
Coolidge, Calvin, 4
Cox, General
Sherman, William Tecumseh, 2
Crabbe, George
Melbourne, William Lamb, 4
Cramm, Gottfried von
Budge, J. Donald, 1
Crane, Stephen
Cranmer, Thomas
Crawford, Cheryl
Clurman, Harold, 1
Crawford, Joan
Crenshaw, Benjamin
Crescendi, Girolamo
Grassini, Giuseppina, 1
Crockett, Davy
Crockford, William
Croesus
Croll, James
Cromwell, Oliver
Waller, Edmund, 1
Cromwell, Thomas
Henry VIII, 2
Crosby, Bing
Crosby, Caresse
Joyce, James, 2
Crosby, Harry
Joyce, John, 2
Crouse, Russel
O’Neill, Eugene, 2
Cuccinello, Tony
Stengel, Casey, 1
Cukor, George D.
Culpeper, Thomas
Howard, Catherine, 1
Cumberland, Duke of
Foote, Samuel, 2
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 11
Cummings, E. E.
Barnes, Djuna, 1
Cunard, Lady Emerald
Maugham, W. Somerset, 2
Cunard, Nancy
Castlerosse, Valentine Browne, 1
Moore, George Augustus, 3
Cunninghame Graham, Robert Bontine
Curchod, Suzanne
Gibbon, Edward, 1
Curie, Marie
Curley, James Michael
Curran, John Philpot
Roche, Sir Boyle, 2
Curtiz, Michael
Cushman, Charlotte
Cuvier, Baron Georges Léopold
Cuzzoni, Francesca
Handel, George Frideric, 3
Cyrus II
Czolgosz, Leon
McKinley, William B., 2
Dahlgren, J. H., Mrs.
Lamar, Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus, 1
Dahn, Felix
Dale, Valentine
Elizabeth I, 4
Dali, Salvador
Dalton, John
Dana, Richard Henry
Daniel, Clifton
Lillie, Beatrice, 3
D’Annunzio, Gabriele
Dante Alighieri
Giotto, 3
Vega Carpio, Lope Félix de, 1
Danton, Georges Jacques
Darius I
Alexander III, 6
Darrow, Clarence
Darwin, Charles
Darwin, Emma
Darwin, Charles, 1
Darwin, Erasmus
Daudet, Alphonse
Daumier, Honoré
Corot, Jean-Baptiste Camille, 1
D’Auteroches, M.
Hay, Lord Charles, 1
Davenant, Sir William
Davenport, Guy
Barnes,
Djuna, 2
David, Sir Edgeworth
Davies, Lady Eleanor
Davies, Marion
Hearst, William Randolph, 4
Parker, Dorothy, 3
Davis, Adele
Davis, Bette
Warner, Jack, 3
Davis, Jefferson
Lincoln, Abraham, 18
Davis, Miles
Davis, Sam
Duse, Eleanora, 1
Davy, Sir Humphrey
Dawson, Lord
Asquith, Margot, 4
Day, Dorothy
Auden, W. H., 7
Dayan, Moshe
Dean, “Dizzy”
Dean, Paul
Dean, “Dizzy,” 1
De Beauvoir, Roger
Dumas, Alexandre (fils), 3
Debs, Eugene V.
Debussy, Claude
Bartók, Béla, 1
Satie, Erik, 1
Degas, Edgar
De Gaulle, Charles
Churchill, Winston, 20
Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 19
Montgomery, Bernard Law, 1
Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 4
Pétain, Philippe, 2
Stevenson, Adlai, 6
De la Mare, Walter
De Lisio, Mike
Auden, W. H., 2
Delon, Alain
Burton, Richard, 1
Demetrius the Cynic
Vespasian, 3
De Mille, Cecil B.
De Moivre, Abraham
Demosthenes
Dempsey, Jack
Denbish, Earl of
Fielding, Henry, 2
Denham, Sir John
Denis, Marie-Louise
Dennis, John
Dent, Julia
Grant, Ulysses S., 1
Depew, Chauncey M.
Choate, Joseph Hodges, 3
Dern, Laura
Ladd, Diane, 1
Descartes, René
Deschanel, Paul
Clemenceau, Georges, 4
De Seversky, Alexander
Deslion, Anna
Napoleon, Joseph Charles Paul, 1
Detourbey, Jeanne
De Valera, Eamon
De Valois, Dame Ninette
De Vercelles, Mme.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1
De Vere, Edward
Elizabeth I, 3
Devonshire, Duke Spencer
Dewey, Thomas E.
Dewey, Mrs. Thomas E., 1
Gallup, George Horace, 1
Longworth, Alice Roosevelt, 2
Dewey, Mrs. Thomas E.
Dewey, Thomas, 1
De Wolfe, Elsie
Astor, Mary, 1
Diaghilev, Sergei
Bakst, Léon, 1
Diana, Princess
Cartland, Barbara, 1
DiCaprio, Leonardo
Dickens, Charles
Andersen, Hans Christian, 2
Wilde, Oscar, 10
Dickinson, Angie
Carson, Johnny, 2
Dickinson, Charles
Jackson, Andrew, 1
Dickinson, Emily
Coolidge, Calvin, 7
Diderot, Denis
Dietrich, Marlene
Eisenhower, Dwight David, 2
Di Frasso, Countess
Cooper, Gary, 2
Dietz, Howard
Diller, Barry
Altman, Robert, 1
Dillingham, Charles
Houdini, Harry, 2
DiMaggio, Joe
Monroe, Marilyn, 5
Stengel, Casey, 8
Diogenes
Anthisthenes, 2
Plato, 3
Dionysius II
Aristippus, 1, 2
Dirichlet, Peter
Disney, Walt
Disraeli, Benjamin
Bismarck, Otto von, 7
Devonshire, Spencer, 1
Mill, John Stuart, 1
Divine, Father
Dix, Dorothea
Doane, Dr.
Twain, Mark, 15
Dodds, E. R.
Yeats, William Butler, 1
Doherty, John
Dole, Elizabeth
Dole, Robert, 2, 6
Dole, Robert
Kennedy, Edward M., 3
Donat, Robert
Hitchcock, Alfred, 7
Donatello
Donne, John
Dorset, Earl of
Dryden, John, 3
Dos Passos, John
Faulkner, William, 4
Doubleday, F. Nelson
Carnegie, Andrew, 4
Douglas, Alfred
Wilde, Oscar, 14
Douglas, Stephen A.
Lincoln, Abraham, 9, 10, 12
Seward, William Henry, 1
Douglas-Home, William
Morley, Robert, 1
Douglass, Frederick
Douro, Lord
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 13
Dowson, Ernest
Wilde, Oscar, 17
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
Drake, Sir Francis
Drake, John
Gates, John Warne, 1
Dreiser, Theodore
Drew, John
Dreyschock, Alexander
Drigheda, Countess of
Wycherley, William, 1
Dryden, John
Du Barry, Comtesse Marie
Duchatel, Comte
Rachel, 4
Duclos, Charles Pinot
Du Deffand, Marquise Marie Anne
Dudley, Earl John W. W.
Dudley, Lord John
Metternich, Klemens von, 1
Rogers, Samuel, 3
Duff Cooper, Lady Diana
Lowell, Robert, 1
Duff Gordon, Lady
Tennyson, Alfred, 8
Duke, Vernon
Dulles, John Foster
Dumas, Alexandre (père)
Dumas, Alexandre (fils)
Bernhardt, Sarah, 7
Dumas, Alexandre (père), 1
Dumphries, Countess of
Taylor, John, 1
Duncan, David Douglas
Picasso, Pablo, 16
Duncan, Isadora
Shaw, George Bernard, 8
Dunsany, Baron Edward J. M. D. P.
Duperre, Admiral
Mathilde, Princess, 2
Du Pont, Thomas C.
Duquesnel, Félix
Bernhardt, Sarah, 2
Durocher, Leo
Duse, Eleanora
Duval, Claude
Duveen, Henry
Morgan, J. P., Sr., 1
Duveen, Joseph
Morgan, J. P., Sr., 1
Dyson, Sir Cyril
Eakins, Thomas
Eastwood, Clint
Eaton, John
Jackson, Andrew, 4
Eaton, Peggy
Jackson, Andrew, 4
Ebbets, Charles
Herman, Floyd, 1
Eckermann, Johann Peter
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 3
Eddy, Mary Baker
Eden, Sir Anthony
Eden, Sir William
Edison, Charles
Edison, Thomas Alva, 1
Edison, Thomas Alva
Edman, Irwin
Edward I
Robert the Bruce, 1
Edward III
Edward I, 1
Edward VI
Cardano, Girolamo, 1
Edward VII
Alexandra, 1
Carlos I, 1
George V, 4
Langtry, Lillie, 1
Ross, Harold, 12
Sargent, John Singer, 1
Victoria, 9
Edward VIII
Woollcott, Alexander, 6
Edwards, Blake
Sellers, Peter, 2
Einstein, Albert
Chaplin, Charlie, 1
Schweitzer, Albert, 5
Einstein, Elsa
Einstein, Albert, 17
Eisenhower, Dwight Da
vid
MacArthur, Douglas, 3
Patton, George S., 2
Stevenson, Adlai, 2, 4
Wilson, Charles Erwin, 1
Eisenhower, Ida
Eisenhower, Dwight David, 3
Eisenhower, Jennie
Nixon, Richard M., 12
Eldon, Lord
George III, 3
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Hepburn, Katharine, 2
Eliot, Charles W.
Eliot, John
Eliot, T. S.
Barnes, Djuna, 3
Elizabeth I
Bacon, Francis, 2, 3
Bull, John, 1
Dale, Valentine, 1
Drake, Francis, 1
Raleigh, Sir Walter, 1, 6
Shakespeare, William, 2
Spenser, Edmund, 1
Stubbs, John, 1
Elizabeth II
Elizabeth, Queen Mother, 2
Philip, Prince, 1
Elizabeth, Queen Mother
Ellenborough, Baron Edward Law
Elliot, Hugh
Ellis, Thomas Flower
Macauley, Thomas Babington, 5
Elliston, Robert W.
Elman, Mischa
Godowsky, Leopold, 1
Kreisler, Fritz, 3
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Carlyle, Thomas, 5
Thoreau, Henry David, 4
Empedocles
Enesco, Georges
Engels, Friedrich
Enghien, Duc d’
Napoleon I, 5
Englund, George
Collins, Joan, 1
Epstein, Sir Jacob
Erasmus, Desiderius
Eric the Red
Erne, Lord
Norbury, John Toler, 3
Erskine, Baron Thomas
Erving, Julius
Esher, Lord
Alexandra, 1
Esparbés, Mme. d’
Louis XV, 1
Este, Alfonso d’
Alexander VI, 1
Este, Borso d’
Esterházy, Prince
Haydn, Franz Joseph, 2
Euclid
Eugénie, Empress
Castiglione, Nicchia di, 1
Euler, Leonhard
Diderot, Denis, 1
Euripides
Evans, Arise
Charles II, 2
Evans, Sir Arthur
Evans, Dame Edith
Gielgud, John, 1
Thorndike, Dame Sybil, 3
Evarts, William M.
Hayes, Rutherford B., 1
Everett, Edward
Ewell, General
Jackson, “Stonewall,” 3
Fabian
Shaw, George Bernard, 22
Fadiman, Clifton
Rubinstein, Artur, 1
Fagiuoli, Giovanni Battista
Fairbanks, Douglas
Fallières, Armand
Faraday, Michael
Farouk I
Farquhar, Sir Walter
Farr, Heather
Farragut, David G.
Faulkner, William
Hemingway, Ernest, 6
Fauré, Gabriel
Favras, Marquis Thomas de Mahay
Fawkes, Guy
Fehr, Don
Quisenberry, Dan, 2
Feller, Bob
Ferber, Edna
Coward, Noël, 2
Ferdinand I (emperor of Austria)
Ferdinand I (king of Bulgaria)
Ferdinand IV
Ferguson, Sarah
Fergusson, George
Fermat, Pierre de
Fermi, Enrico
Szilard, Leo, 1
Festing, Michael
Arne, Thomas, 1
Fétis, François-Joseph
Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio, 2
Feydeau, Georges
Feynman, Richard
Field, John