Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes
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Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper
Locke, John, 1
Shah of Iran
Bacall, Lauren, 1
Shakespeare, William
Adams, Franklin P., 3
Arditi, Luigi, 1
Sharp, William
Shatner, William
Shaw, George Bernard
Barrie, J. M., 2, 8
Chesterton, G. K., 4, 5
Churchill, Winston, 23
Epstein, Jacob, 1
Kennedy, Joseph P., 5
Skinner, Cornelia Otis, 1
Terry, Dame Ellen, 2
Shaw, Norman
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill, 7
Shearing, George
Sheean, Vincent
O’Hara, John, 1
Sheen, Fulton
John XXIII, 3
Shelburne, William Petty
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, 2
Shelley, Percy Florence
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, 2
Sheridan, Philip Henry
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
Fox, Charles James, 4
Kelly, Michael, 1
Sheridan, Thomas
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 12
Sherman, Roger
Sherman, William Tecumseh
Sherwood, Robert
Benchley, Robert, 10
Shi Huangdi
Shostakovitch, Dmitri
Britten, Benjamin, 2
Shrake, Bud
Penick, Harvey, 1
Shriver, Mrs. Sargent
De Gaulle, Charles, 8
Shuter, Edward
Sibelius, Jean
Sickert, Walter
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill, 15
Siddal, Elizabeth
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 2
Siddons, Sarah
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1
Siddons, William
Siddons, Sarah, 1
Sidney, Sir Philip
Sieyès, Emmanuel-Joseph
Sigismund
Silverman, Fred
Silvers, Phil
Chevalier, Maurice, 2
Simenon, Georges
Simmons, Samuel
Milton, John, 1
Simon, Richard Leo
Sinatra, Frank
Singer, Isaac Bashevis
Singer, Paris
Duncan, Isadora, 1
Sitwell, Dame Edith
Sitwell, Sir George Reresby
Sitwell, Osbert
Huxley, Aldous, 2
Sitwell, Dame Edith, 1
Sitwell, Sir George Reresby, 1, 2
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1
Skelton, John
Skelton, Martha
Jefferson, Thomas, 2
Skinner, Cornelia, Otis
Skinner, Otis
Skowron, Moose
Colavito, Rocky, 1
Slezak, Leo
Smith, Adam
Smith, Alfred Emmanuel
Smith, Bessie
Smith, Billy
Mizner, Wilson, 4
Smith, Charlotte
Smith, F. E.
Churchill, Winston, 10
Collins, Michael, 1
Smith, Robert Percy
Smith, Sydney, 8
Smith, Sydney
Brougham, Henry Peter, 1, 2
Canning, George, 1
Grote, Harriet, 1
Macauley, Thomas Babington, 2
Smuts, Jan Christiaan
Smyth, Dame Ethel
Snead, Sam
Snow, C. P.
Wells, H. G., 4
Sobhuza II
Socrates
Antisthenes, 1
Solomon
Solon
Thales, 4
Somerset, Charles Seymour
Sophocles
Sorensen, Ted
Nixon, Richard M., 6
Soustelle, Jacques
De Gaulle, Charles, 5
Southampton, Earl of
Spenser, Edmund, 2
Southern, Edward
Lincoln, Abraham, 36
Southey, Robert
Brontë, Charlotte, 2
Porson, Richard, 4
Spellman, Francis Joseph
Spencer, Herbert
Spencer, Selden P.
Coolidge, Calvin, 12
Spenser, Edmund
Spessiva, Olga
Bakst, Léon, 1
Spiegel, Sam
O’Toole, Peter, 2
Spillane, Mickey
Spock, Benjamin
Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 5
Spooner, William Archibald
Springer, William M.
Reed, Thomas Brackett, 2
Sprott, Walter John
Keyes, John Maynard, 1
Spurgeon, Charles Haddon
Spurinna
Caesar, Julius, 8
Staël, Anne Louise Germaine de
Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de, 4
Stafford, Jean
Lowell, Robert, 3
Stair, Lord
Louis XIV, 8
Stalin, Joseph
Beria, Lavrenti P., 1
Khrushchev, Nikita S., 3, 4
Stanfield, Clarkson
Constable, John, 1
Stanley, Henry Morton
Stanton, Charles E.
Stanton, Edwin
Lincoln, Abraham, 27
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
Stapleton, Maureen
Williams, “Tennessee,” 2
Stark, John
Steele, Sir Richard
Steell, Sir John
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 12
Steffens, Lincoln
Stein, Gertrude
Balmain, Pierre, 1
James, William, 2
Picasso, Pablo, 2, 3, 4
Steinbeck, John
O’Hara, John, 3
Wright, Richard, 1
Steinberg, William
Steinbrenner, George
Steinmetz, Charles Proteus
Stengel, Casey
Mantle, Mickey, 4
Thronberry, Marv, 1
Stern, Abraham
Alexander I, 3
Stern, Isaac
Ali, Muhammad, 4
Perlman, Itzhak, 1
Sternaux, Ludwig
Blumenthal, Oskar, 1
Sterne, Laurence
Stevens, George
Wayne, John, 1
Stevens, Thaddeus
Stevens, Wallace
Levant, Oscar, 3
Stevenson, Adlai
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Arnold, Matthew, 2
Stewart, Jimmy
Reagan, Ronald, 3
Steyne, Geoffrey
Broun, Heywood Campbell, 1
Stillingfleet, Benjamin
Vesey, Elizabeth, 1
Stillingfleet, Edward
Charles II, 7
Stillman, James A.
Stimson, Henry Lewis
Stokowski, Leopold
Stoppard, Tom
Story, Joseph
Marshall, John, 1
Stout, Rex
Woollcott, Alexander, 9
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 2
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Twain, Mark, 17
Strachey, Lytton
Strasberg, Lee
Clurman, Harold, 1
Strauss, Johann
Brahms, Johannes, 7
Strauss, Richard
Stravinsky, Igor
Dali, Salvador, 2
Diaghilev, Sergei, 1
Schönberg, Arnold, 2
Stresemann, Gustav
Briand, Aristide, 1
Strindberg, August
Ibsen, Henrik, 3
Strong, George Templeton
Whitney, Stephen, 1
Strug, Kerri
Stuart, Gilb
ert
Washington, George, 9
Stuart, James Ewell Brown
Jackson, “Stonewall,” 6
Stubbs, John
Sudermann, Hermann
Sulla
Caesar, Julius, 1
Sullivan, Anne Mansfield
Keller, Helen, 1
Sullivan, Sir Arthur
Gilbert, W. S., 3
Sullivan, Ed
Burns, George, 4
Sullivan, John Lawrence
Sulzberger, Arthur, Jr.
Clinton, William Jefferson, 4
Summerall, Charles Pelot
Sumner, Charles
Grant, Ulysses S., 9
Howe, Julia Ward, 1
Susann, Jacqueline
Sutherland, Donald
Bankhead, Talullah, 11
Sutherland, Duchess of
Victoria, 4
Sutton, Don
Suvorov, Alexander Vasilievich
Svyatopolk
Swaffer, Hannen
Coward, Noël, 4
Swanson, Gloria
Wilder, Billy, 1
Swedenborg, Emanuel
Swift, Jonathan
Partridge, John, 1
Swinburne, Algernon Charles
Gosse, Edmund, 1
Sylvester, Johnny
Ruth, “Babe,” 4
Szilard, Leo
Taft, Horace Dutton
Taft, Lorado
Taft, William Howard
Lowell, Abbott Lawrence, 1
Robinson, Edward Arlington, 2
Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de
Charles X, 2
Chateaubriand, François René de, 2
Fouché, Joseph, 2
Hamilton, Alexander, 1
Isabey, Jean-Baptiste, 1
Mirabeau, Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, 2
Napoleon I, 14
Staël, Anne Louise Germaine de, 2, 3
Talmadge, Norma
Tamagno, Francesco
Taper, Bernard
Balanchine, George, 1
Tarantino, Quentin
Taylor, Elizabeth
Taylor, John
Taylor, Laurette
Taylor, Paul
Taylor, Zachary
Sherman, William Tecumseh, 1
Tear, Robert
Henze, Hans Werner, 1
Tebaldi, Renata
Callas, Maria, 3
Tecumseh
Telford, Thomas
Temple, Frederick
Teng Shih
Tennyson, Alfred
Babbage, Charles, 1
Browning, Robert, 1
Cameron, Julia Margaret, 1
Carlyle, Thomas, 3
Wilde, Oscar, 9
Teresa of Ávila, St.
Terry, Dame Ellen
Olivier, Laurence, 1
Tetrazzini, Luisa
Thackeray, William Makepeace
Thalberg, Irving J.
Mayer, Louis B., 2
Thales
Thatcher, Margaret
Elizabeth II, 12
Thaw, Henry
Mizner, Wilson, 5
Nesbit, Evelyn, 1
Themistocles
Theodoric
Therold, A. L.
Labouchere, Henry, 3
Thiboust, Lambert
Napoleon, Joseph Charles Paul, 1
Thiers, Louis Adolphe
Thomas, Dylan
Thomas, M. Carey
Thomas, Norman
Thomas, Pinklon
Tyson, Mike, 1
Thompson, Dorothy
Lewis, Sinclair, 1, 2
Thompson, Elspeth
Tennyson, Alfred, 4
Thompson, Emma
Thompson, William
Seeley, Sir John Robert, 1
Thomson, Sir George Paget
Thomson, Joseph
Thomson, Robert
Thoreau, Henry David
Thorndike, Dame Sybil
Thorold, A. L.
Labouchere, Henry, 3
Thorpe, Jim
Thronberry, Marv
Thurber James
Ross, Harold, 4, 5, 11
Thurlow, Edward
Burke, Edmund, 5
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1
Thurman, Uma
Travolta, John, 1
Tiberius
Caligula, Gaius Caesar, 5
Ticknor, James
Hamilton, Alexander, 1
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 2
Tintoretto
Titian
Toch-a-way
Sheridan, Philip Henry, 1
Todd, Ann
Korda, Sir Alexander, 1
Togo, Admiral
Bryan, William Jennings, 1
Toklas, Alice B.
Balmain, Pierre, 1
Stein, Gertrude, 7, 10, 11
Tolstoy, Countess
McCullers, Carson, 1
Tolstoy, Leo
Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 2
Tooke, John Horne
Tooker, Joseph H.
Cushman, Charlotte, 1
Toscanini, Arturo
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de
Townshend, Charles
Tracy, Spencer
Reynolds, Burt, 2
Travers, Ben
Hawtrey, Charles Henry, 1
Travers, William R.
Travolta, John
Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm
Bancroft, Squire, 1
Wilde, Oscar, 11
Trelawny, Edward J.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 2
Trench, Richard Chenevix
Trilling, Lionel
Trollope, Anthony
Trollope, Frances
Trotsky, Leon
Troy, Hugh
Truman, Bess
Truman, Harry S., 5, 11
Truman, Harry S.
Clinton, William Jefferson, 2
Dewey, Mrs. Thomas E., 1
Gallup, George Horace, 1
Leahy, William Daniel, 1
Nixon, Richard M., 3, 4, 5
Stevenson, Adlai, 1
Truman, Margaret
Truman, Harry S., 4, 11
Truth, Sojourner
Tshombe, Moise
Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 14
Tumulty, Joseph P.
Wilson, Woodrow, 4
Tunney, Gene
Dempsey, Jack, 1
Tuohy, Patrick
Joyce, James, 4
Turner, Joseph Mallord William
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill, 16
Turner, Nancy Byrd
Robinson, Edward Arlington, 1
Twain, Mark
Clinton, William Jefferson, 1
Depew, Chauncey M., 1
Truman, Harry S., 7
Ward, Artemus, 2
Tweed, “Boss”
Nast, Thomas, 1
Tyler, Anne
Tyler, George C.
Kaufman, George S., 4
Tyrawley, Lord
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 3
Tyson, Mike
Uccello, Paolo
Udall, Stewart
Khrushchev, Nikita S., 2
Ulbricht, Walther
Untermeyer, Louis
Unzelmann, Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand
Urban, Joseph
Mizner, Wilson, 5
Urban VIII
Urbino, Duchess of
Titian, 1
Ustinov, Peter
Utrillo
Modigliani, Amedeo, 1
Valdes, Ramiro
Castro, Fidel, 2
Valeriani, Richard
Kissinger, Henry, 2
Van Buren, Martin
Vanderbilt, Alice
Vanderbilt, Cornelius
Vanderbilt, William Henry, 1
Westinghouse, George, 1
Vanderbilt, Gloria
Shatner, William, 1
Vanderbilt, Alice, 1
Vanderbilt, Grace
&n
bsp; Astor, Nancy, 5
Vanderbilt, William Henry
Van Doren, Charles
Fiennes, Ralph, 1
Van Doren, Mark
Van Gogh, Vincent
Troy, Hugh, 1
Van Slyke, Andy
Varah, Chad
Vasari
Michelangelo Buonarroti, 7
Vatel
Vaughan, Herbert
Adler, Hermann, 1
Vaughan-Thomas, Wynford
Smuts, Jan Christiaan, 1
Vaughan Williams, Ralph
Beecham, Thomas, 2
Vechten, Carl Van
Stravinsky, Igor, 2
Veeck, Bill
Stengel, Casey, 8
Vega Carpio, Lope Félix de
Verdi, Giuseppe
Verlaine, Paul
Vernon, Jackie
Chaplin, Charlie, 5
Verrall, Arthur Woollgar
Vesey, Elizabeth
Vespasian
Victor Amadeus II
Victoria, Queen
Prince Albert, 1
Carroll, Lewis, 1
Disraeli, Benjamin, 11, 12
Edward VII, 3, 4, 5
Grant, Ulysses S., 12
Kingsale, Michael William de Courcy, 1
Lear, Edward, 1, 2
Paderewski, Ignace Jan, 1
Palmerston, Henry John Temple, 2
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 14
Whewell, William, 1
Wilde, Oscar, 15
Vidal, Gore
Vidor, King
Fonda, Henry, 2
Vigée-Lebrun, Marie-Louise
Marie Antoinette, 2
Villa, Pancho
Villars, Maréchal
Louis XIV, 3
Villette, Marquis de
Voltaire, 15
Villiers de L’Isle-Adam, Auguste
Virchow, Rudolf
Visconti, Luchino
Callas, Maria, 2
Vitellius, Aulus
Caligula, Gaius Caesar, 2
Voiture, Vincent
Bossuet, Jacques Bénigne, 1
Vollard, Ambroise
Cézanne, Paul, 1
Mallarmé, Stéphane, 1
Rops, Félicien, 1
Volney, Constantin
Washington, George, 10
Voltaire
Allais, Alphonse, 1
Congreve, William, 1
Franklin, Benjamin, 10
Lenclos, Ninon de, 5
Voroshilov, Kliment
Beria, Lavrenti P., 1
Voss, Richard
Sudermann, Hermann, 1
Voznesensky, Andrei
Reagan, Ronald, 22
Waddell, Rube
Wagner, Richard
Liszt, Franz, 2
Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 3
Waley, Arthur
Strachey, Lytton, 3
Walker, James John
Smith, Alfred E., 1
Wallace, Mike
Perlman, Itzhak, 1
Wallenstein, Alfred
Walter, Bruno, 1
Waller, Edmund
Waln, Nicholas
Walpole, Horace
Hyde, Lady Catherine, 1
Walpole, Sir Robert
Selwyn, George Augustus, 3
Walter, Bruno
Walton, Sir William
Warburton, William
Quin, James, 1
Ward, Artemus
Lincoln, Abraham, 24
Ward, James Allen
Churchill, Winston, 15
Warden, William Gray
Mizner, Addison, 1
Warder, Betsy
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 7
Warner, Jack
Reagan, Ronald, 3
Warren, Herbert
Lewis, C. S., 1
Washington, George