Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes

by Clifton Fadiman

Hilbert, David

  Hill, John

  Hill, Rowland

  Hillary, Sir Edmund

  Hindemith, Paul

  Hindenburg, Paul von

  Liebermann, Max, 1

  Hinkley, John

  Reagan, Nancy, 2

  Reagan, Ronald, 14

  Hirohito

  Bush, Barbara, 2

  Hitchcock, Sir Alfred

  Simenon, Georges, 1

  Hitler, Adolf

  Budge, J. Donald, 1

  Ho Chi Minh

  Johnson, Lyndon Baines, 11

  Hobson, Laura Z.

  Hobson, Thomas

  Hodson, Henrietta

  Gilbert, W. S., 5

  Hoffman, Dustin

  Olivier, Laurence, 3

  Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm

  Hofmann, Josef Casimir

  Hogan, Ben

  Hogarth, William

  Heidegger, John James, 1

  Hokusai

  Holbach, Baron d’

  Geoffrin, Marie-Thérèse, 1

  Holbein, Hans

  Henry VIII, 2

  Holland, Lady

  Orsay, Alfred-Guillaume-Gabriel d’, 2

  Holles, Denzil

  Holliday, Judy

  Holm, Celeste DiCaprio, Leonardo, 1

  Holmes, Fanny Dixwell

  Holmes, John

  Holmes, John Clellon

  Kerouac, Jack, 1

  Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr.

  Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.

  Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 4

  Holmes, Fanny Dixwell, 3

  Lincoln, Abraham, 20

  Homer, Winslow

  Hook, Theodore Edward

  Hooker, Joseph

  Lincoln, Abraham, 23

  Hoover, Herbert

  Long, Huey P., 2

  Hoover, Mrs. Herbert

  Horowitz, Vladimir, 3

  Hoover, J. Edgar

  Johnson, Lyndon Baines, 4

  Hope, Bob

  Hopkinson, Charles

  Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 4

  Hopkinson, Francis

  Hoppner, John

  Porson, Richard, 3

  Horne, Lena

  Jessel, George, 1

  Horowitz, Vladimir

  Reagan, Nancy, 4

  Horthy de Nagyabánya Miklós

  Horwitz, Al

  Winters, Shelley, 1

  Hotham, Gertrude

  Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 2

  Houdini, Harry

  Housman, A. E.

  Barrie, J. M., 1, 2

  Houston, Sam

  Polk, James K., 1

  Howard, Catherine

  Howard, Elizabeth

  Dryden, John, 2

  Howard, Leslie

  Howard, Lady Mary

  Murray, Gilbert, 1

  Howarth, Humphrey

  Howe, Elias

  Howe, Irving

  Howe, Julia Ward

  Astor, John Jacob, 1

  Howells, William Dean

  Twain, Mark, 8

  Hoy, William

  Hoyt, Julia

  Chase, Ilka, 1

  Hruska, Roman

  Hubbard, Mabel

  Bell, Alexander Graham, 2

  Hudson, Rock

  Hughes, Langston

  Hugo, Victor

  Hulbert, Merritt

  Goldwyn, Samuel, 2

  Hull, Cordell

  Hull, Isaac

  Humboldt, Friedrich H. A.

  Balzac, Honoré de, 8

  Jefferson, Thomas, 9

  Hume, David

  Hume, Paul

  Truman, Harry S., 4

  Humphrey, Hubert Horatio

  Johnson, Lyndon Baines, 9

  Hunt, Leigh

  Carlyle, Thomas, 4

  Hunter, Catfish

  Jackson, Reggie, 3

  Hunter, John

  Hurst, Fannie

  Roosevelt, Franklin D., 4

  Huston, John

  Hutton, E. F.

  Hutton, Lauren

  Huxley, Aldous

  Huxley, Thomas Henry

  Hyde, Lady Catherine

  Hyde, William

  Hylan, John F.

  Hynd, Samuel

  Sobhuza II, 1

  Hyrtl, Joseph

  Ibn Saud

  Ibrahim Pasha

  Ibsen, Henrik

  Ikku, Jippensha

  Inge, William Ralph

  Ingersoll, Robert Green

  Beecher, Henry Ward, 4

  Brooks, Philip, 1

  Ingyo

  Iphicrates

  Irving, Henry

  Twain, Mark, 12

  Irving, Sir Henry

  Tennyson, Alfred, 2

  Irving, Washington

  Isabey, Jean-Baptiste

  Jacks, Arthur

  Lardner, Ring, 2

  Jackson, Andrew

  Buchanan, James, 1

  Jackson, Joe

  Jackson, Reggie

  Steinbrenner, George, 2, 4

  Jackson, Shirley

  Jackson, Thomas J. “Stonewall”

  Jacobi, Karl Gustav Jacob

  Jacobi, M. H.

  Jacobi, Karl Gustav Jacob, 1

  James, Alice

  James, Henry, 6

  James, Henry

  Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr., 3

  James, William, 4

  James, Jesse

  James, William

  James I

  Bacon, Francis, 4

  James II

  Milton, John, 2

  Sedley, Sir Charles, 1

  James of York

  Charles II, 6

  Jarry, Alfred

  Jefferson, Joseph

  Jefferson, Thomas

  Adams, John, 4

  Franklin, Benjamin, 2

  Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 20

  Lafayette, Marie Joseph Gilbert du Motier, 3

  Jeffrey, Francis

  Smith, Sydney, 2

  Jeffreys, George

  Jeffries, James J.

  Fitzsimmons, Robert, 1

  Jérôme, King

  Jerrold, Douglas

  Jessel, George

  John, Augustus

  John XXIII

  Snead, Sam, 1

  John III Sobieski

  Johnson, Andrew

  Johnson, Hibbard

  Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1

  Johnson, Lyndon Baines

  Humphrey, Hubert Horatio, 3, 4

  Johnson, Nunnally

  Cooper, Gary, 3

  Johnson, Samuel

  Boswell, James, 1, 2

  Goldsmith, Oliver, 1

  Siddons, Sarah, 3

  Johnson, Walter

  Ruth, “Babe,” 6

  Johnson, Sir William

  Johnston, Alexander Keith

  Thomson, Joseph, 1

  Jolley, Smead

  Jolson, Al

  Jones, Dean

  Marlborough, John Churchill, 1

  Jones, James

  Jones, John Paul

  Jonson, Ben

  Jordan, Dorothea

  Betty, William Hernry West, 1

  Jordan, Michael

  Joseph II

  Catherine II, 1

  Joule, James Prescott

  Kelvin, William Thomson, 1

  Jovanovich, William

  Russell, Bertrand, 1

  Jowett, Benjamin

  Joyce, James

  Heap, Jane, 1

  Joyce, John

  Juang-Zu

  Julia

  Augustus, Gaius, 6

  Julian

  Julius II

  Jullien, Louis Antoine

  Jung, Carl

  Freud, Sigmund, 1

  Jungmann, Elisabeth

  Beerbohm, Max, 4

  Jusserand, Jean Adrien A. J.

  Kahn, Otto

  Kallio, Kyösti

  Kames, Henry Home

  Kanin, Garson

  Tracy, Spencer, 2

  Kant, Immanuelr />
  Karajan, Herbert von

  Nilsson, Birgit Marta, 2

  Karl Alexander

  Karnow, Stanley

  Luce, Henry R., 1

  Karolyi, Bela

  Strug, Kerri, 1

  Karsh, Yousuf

  Armstrong, Neil, 1

  Casals, Pablo, 4

  Hemingway, Ernest, 8

  John XXIII, 3

  Shaw, George Bernard, 21

  Kaufman, Beatrice

  Adams, Franklin P., 2, 3

  Kaufman, George S.

  Woollcott, Alexander, 10

  Kaufman, Mrs. George S.

  Levant, Oscar, 4

  Kaunitz-Rietburg, Wenzel Anton

  Kaye, Danny

  Shaw, George Bernard, 23

  Kazan, Elia

  Kazin, Alfred

  Auden, W. H., 8

  Plath, Sylvia, 1

  Keating, Fred

  Bankhead, Talullah, 4

  Keats, John

  Wordsworth, William, 1

  Kefauver, Estes

  Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 4

  Stengel, Casey, 7

  Keith, Mrs. Murray

  Scott, Sir Walter, 3

  Kekulé von Stradonitz, August

  Keller, Helen

  Kelly, Michael

  Kelly, Pat

  Weaver, Earl, 1

  Kelvin, William Thompson

  Kemble, Charles

  Kemble, Fanny

  Kemble, John Philip

  Kemble, Roger

  Siddons, Sarah, 1

  Kemble, Stephen

  Kendal, Madge

  Bernhardt, Sarah, 5

  Kennedy, Caroline

  Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 21

  Kennedy, Edward M.

  Kennedy, Ethel

  Kennedy, Joseph P., 4

  Kennedy, Robert, 3

  Kennedy, John Fitzgerald

  Galbraith, John Kenneth, 1

  Khrushchev, Nikita S., 3

  Nixon, Richard M., 5, 6

  Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 1, 2, 3, 6, 8

  Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, Jr.

  Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 17

  Kennedy, Joseph P.

  Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 3, 21

  Kennedy, Kerry

  Kennedy, Robert, 2

  Kennedy, Robert

  Kennedy, Edward M., 1

  Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 11

  Kennedy, Joseph P., 4

  Kent, Duchess of

  Victoria, 3

  Kepler, Johannes

  Keppel, Mrs. Alice

  Sitwell, Dame Edith, 1

  Keppel, Augustus

  Ker, William Paton

  Sharp, William, 1

  Kern, Jerome

  Hammerstein, Oscar II, 2

  Kerouac, Jack

  Kerr, Deborah

  Kerr, Johnny

  Keynes, John Maynard

  Khrushchev, Nikita

  Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 18

  Macmillan, Harold, 1

  Zhou Enlai, 1

  Kidd, William

  Kiner, Ralph

  King, Alan

  Garland, Judy, 1

  Kinglake, Alexander William

  Kingsale, Michael William de Courcy

  Kingsley, Charles

  Seeley, Sir John Robert, 1

  Kipling, Rudyard

  Kirchhoff, Gustav Robert

  Kissinger, Henry

  Kissinger, Walter

  Kissinger, Henry, 3

  Nixon, Richard M., 11

  Kitchener, Horatio Herbert

  Asquith, Margot, 3

  Kittredge, George

  Klein, Charles

  Klemperer, Otto

  Klöpfer, Eugene

  Kneller, Sir Godfrey

  Knighton, William

  George IV, 1

  Knopf, Alfred A.

  Jackson, Shirley, 1

  Knox, Philander Chase

  Knox, Ronald

  Koestler, Arthur

  Koklova, Olga

  Picasso, Pablo, 18

  Koo, Wellington

  Koppay, Joszi Arpád

  Korda, Sir Alexander

  Korda, Michael

  Korda, Sir Alexander, 6

  Welles, Orson, 3

  Korda, Vincent

  Welles, Orson, 3

  Korda, Zoli

  Korda, Sir Alexander, 3

  Koussevitzky, Sergei

  Kranepool, Ed

  Stengel, Casey, 4

  Krasna, Norman

  Cohn, Harry, 3

  Kraus, Karl

  Altenberg, Peter, 1

  Kreisler, Fritz

  Krementz, Jill

  Flanner, Janet, 1

  Krock, Arthur

  Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 14

  Kroll, Leon

  Homer, Winslow, 1

  Kuhn, Bowie

  Allen, Dick, 1

  Finley, Charles, 1

  Labouchere, Henry

  Ladd, Diane

  Laemmle, Carl

  Lafayette, Marie Joseph Gilbert du Motier

  Laffitte, Jacques

  Napoleon I, 12

  La Fontaine, Jean de

  Lagrange, Joseph-Louis

  Laplace, Pierre-Simon, 2

  LaGrow, Lerrin

  Martin, Billy, 1

  La Guardia, Fiorello

  Laird, Melvin

  Laïs

  Lamar, Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus

  Lamarr, Hedy

  Mature, Victor, 2

  Lamb, Lady Caroline

  Lamb, Charles

  Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 3, 7

  Elliston, Robert W., 1

  Wordsworth, William, 2

  Lamb, Mary

  Lamb, Charles, 1

  Lamon, Ward

  Lincoln, Abraham, 3

  Lanchester, Elsa

  Laughton, Charles, 1

  Landers, Ann

  Landis, Kenesaw Mountain

  Landor, Walter Savage

  Landowska, Wanda

  Landru, Henri Désiré

  Lang, Andrew

  Zangwill, Israel, 1

  Lang, George

  Lang, Gregor

  Roosevelt, Theodore, 1

  Langdon, Charles J.

  Twain, Mark, 3

  Langdon, Olivia

  Twain, Mark, 3, 4, 7, 11, 17

  Langtry, Lillie

  Lansdowne, Lord

  Rogers, Samuel, 1

  Laplace, Pierre-Simon

  Larbaud, Valery

  Joyce, James, 6

  Lardner, James

  O’Hara, John, 1

  Lardner, Ring

  Ross, Harold, 13

  Lasorda, Tommy

  Latham, Harold

  Mitchell, Margaret, 1

  Latimer, Hugh

  Laudon, Gideon von

  Frederick II, 9

  Laughlin, James

  Nabokov, Vladimir, 1

  Laughton, Charles

  Lauzun, Armand Louis de Gontaut

  Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent

  Lawrence, D. H.

  Lawrence, Frieda

  Lawrence, D. H., 2

  Lawrence, Gertrude

  Elizabeth, Queen Mother, 4

  Lawrence, James

  Lawrence, Sir Thomas

  Turner, Joseph Mallord William, 3

  Lawrence, T. E.

  Lawson, Wilfred

  Lazenby, George

  Reynolds, Burt, 1

  Lazzeri, Tony

  Alexander, Grover Cleveland, 1

  Ruth, “Babe,” 7

  Leachman, Cloris

  Bogdanovich, Peter, 1

  Collins, Joan, 1

  Leadbeter, Don

  Nixon, Richard M., 7

  Leahy, William Daniel

  Lear, Edward

  Leblanc, Georgette

  Maeterlinck, Maurice, 2

  Leblanc, Léonide

  Aumale, Henry d’, 1, 2

  Lecouvreur, Adrienne

  Voltaire, 3

  Ledru-R
ollin, Alexandre Auguste

  Lee, Gypsy Rose

  McCullers, Carson, 3

  Lee, Henry

  Walker, James John, 1

  Washington, George, 9

  Lee, Nathaniel

  Lee, Robert E.

  LeFlore, Ron

  Brown, Gates, 2

  Lehman, Herbert

  Smith, Alfred E., 1

  Lehmann, Lilli

  Leibnitz, G. W.

  Newton, Sir Isaac, 7

  Leigh, Vivien

  Richardson, Sir Ralph, 1

  Leighton, Frederic

  Lely, Peter

  Cromwell, Oliver, 1

  Lemierre, Antoine

  Voltaire, 15

  Lemmon, Jack

  Cukor, George D., 1

  Gwenn, Edmund, 1

  Hayworth, Rita, 2

  Lenclos, Ninon de

  Leng, Kyrle

  Beaton, Cecil, 1

  Lennon, John

  Leno, Jay

  Dole, Robert, 5

  Lenya, Lotte

  Leo X

  Leofric

  Godiva, Lady, 1

  Léon, Jean

  Baker, Josephine, 2

  Leonard, Elmore

  Leonidas

  Leopold II

  Lepke, Louis

  Lowell, Robert, 2

  Lerner, Alan Jay

  Lloyd Weber, Andrew, 1

  Leschetizky, Theodor

  Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim

  LeSueur, John

  O’Hara, Frank, 1

  Levant, Oscar

  Gershwin, George, 1, 2, 3

  Hart, Moss, 1

  Leventhal, Albert

  Bernstein, Robert, 1

  Leverson, Ada

  Wilde, Oscar, 16

  Levi, Peter

  Seferis, George, 1

  Levick, M. B.

  Ross, Harold, 3

  Levine, Joseph

  Mastroianni, Marcello, 1

  Lévis, Guston Pierre Marc de

  Lewin, Al

  Thalberg, Irving J., 2

  Lewis, C. S.

  Lewis, “Ham”

  Truman, Harry S., 8

  Lewis, Matthew Gregory

  Lewis, Robert

  Clurman, Harold, 1, 2

  Lewis, Sinclair

  Warner, Jack, 1

  Lewisohn, Ludwig

  Woollcott, Alexander, 5

  Liberace

  Li Bo

  Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph

  Liebermann, Max

  Liebling, A. J.

  Lieven, Dariya Khristoforovna

  Liliencron, Detlev von

  Lillie, Beatrice

  Lincoln, Abraham

  Buchanan, James, 2

  Garfield, James A., 1

  Grant, Ulysses S., 5

  Lincoln, Robert Todd, 1

  Pope, Arthur Upham, 1

  Stevens, Thaddeus, 2

  Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 2

  Whitman, Walt, 1

  Lincoln, Mary Todd

  Lincoln, Abraham, 36

  Lincoln, Robert Todd

  Lind, Jenny

  Lindbergh, Charles A.

  George V, 3

  Lindemann, Frederick Alexander

  Lindsay, John

  Berra, Yogi, 7

  Lindsay, Vachel

  Hughes, Langston, 1

  Linowitz, Sol M.

  Root, Elihu, 1

  Lipchitz, Jacques

  Stein, Gertrude, 6

  Lippert, Barbara

  Li Si

  Shi Huangdi, 1

  Lister, Joseph

  Liston, Sonny

  Ali, Muhammad, 5

  Liszt, Franz

  Littlewood, J. E.

  Ramanujan, Srinivasa, 1

  Liveright, Horace

  Anderson, Sherwood, 1

  Dreiser, Theodore, 2

  Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice