Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes

by Clifton Fadiman

  Elizabeth I, 3

  Eugénie, 2

  Onassis, A., 1

  Shatner, 1

  Steinbrenner, 2

  Twain, 10

  embezzlement

  Johnson, S., 7

  emblems

  Edward I, 1

  Edward III, 1

  emergencies

  Capa, 1

  emigration

  Rhodes, 2

  emotions

  Cagney, 3

  Jones, J., 3

  LaFayette, 3

  employees

  Clemenceau, 5

  Eugénie, 2

  Goldwyn, 14

  Greeley, 5

  Roosevelt, T., 1

  employers

  Augustus, 4

  Cobb, 1

  Gould, 1

  employment. See also careers

  Acheson, 1

  Agassiz, 1

  Arlen, 1

  Ellenborough, 2

  Faulkner, 1–2

  Ford, H., 2

  Mantle, 1

  Mayer, 5

  Philip, Prince, 2–3

  Twain, 1

  Tyler, 1

  encouragement

  Kerr, J., 1

  endorsements

  Kennedy, J. F., 6

  Rogers, W., 3

  enemies

  Caroline of Brunswick, 4

  Castracani, 1

  Clay, H., 2

  Frederick II, 7, 9

  Goldwyn, 18

  Hume, 5

  Johnson, L. B., 4

  Jones, J. P., 2

  Khrushchev, 1

  Lamb, Charles, 5

  Lincoln, A., 32

  Louis XIV, 3

  Lowell, Amy, 1

  Napoleon I, 8–9

  Narváez, 1

  Perry, 1

  engineering

  Archimedes, 2

  Steinmetz, 2

  English language

  Nasser, 1

  Richter, 2

  English, the

  Beecher, 3

  Johnson, S., 2

  MacNeil, 1

  Palmerston, 3

  Schopenhauer, 2

  Voltaire, 4

  entertainment

  Petronius, 1

  entrepreneurs

  Bernhardt, 8

  Thales, 2

  Thoreau, 5

  envy. See jealousy

  epigrams

  Wilde, 4

  epiphanies

  McCullers, 3

  epitaphs

  Benchley, 2

  Boulanger, G., 1

  Franklin, 15

  Johnson, S., 22

  Jonson, 2

  Kaufman, 13

  Keats, 3

  Lamb, Charles, 1

  Mencken, 1

  Parker, D., 12

  Parr, 1

  Riley, 1

  Sargent, J. S., 2

  equality

  Bernard, 4

  Diogenes, 6

  escapes

  Cetewayo, 1

  Gogarty, 2

  Houdini, 2

  esprit de corps

  Palmerston, 2

  esteem

  Paderewski, 5

  etiquette. See manners

  eunuchs

  Behan, 3

  euphemism

  Churchill, W., 22

  Elizabeth II, 7

  evangelism

  Reagan, R., 1

  Eve

  John XXIII, 1

  Smith, S., 6

  evolution

  Huxley, T. H., 1

  exaggeration

  Cagliostro, 1

  Goldwyn, 19

  Lincoln, A., 21

  examinations

  James, W., 2

  Oppenheimer, 1

  Phelps, 1

  Samuelson, 1

  Whistler, 2

  Wilde, 1

  exasperation

  Stengel, 6

  excitement

  Reagan, R., 6

  exclusion

  Kennedy, R., 3

  exclusivity

  Hagan, 2

  Smith, F. E., 6

  excuses

  Barham, 1

  Barrymore, J., 6

  Cooper, D., 2

  Dahn, 1

  Edward VII, 1

  Gielgud, 3

  La Fontaine, 1

  Louis XV, 1

  Sheridan, R. B., 2

  execution. See also assassination; murder

  Andre, 1

  Bailly, 1

  Blackwell, 1

  Boleyn, 1

  Bradford, 1

  Brodie, W., 1

  Bruno, 1

  Byng, 1

  Cavell, 1

  Corday, 1

  Cromwell, 4

  Danton, 1

  Favras, 1

  Frederick II, 1

  Frederick William I, 1

  Harrison, B. (“Signer”), 1

  Henry VIII, 1

  John, A., 1

  Latimer, 1

  Lauzun, 1

  Louis XVI, 4

  Marie Antoinette, 3

  Mary, Queen of Scots, 1

  Milton, 2

  More, T., 3

  Muraviev, 1

  Napoleon I, 5

  Nicholas I, 5

  Quin, 1

  Raleigh, 7–8

  Roland, 1

  Schwarzenberg, 2

  Selwyn, 2

  Servetus, 1

  Wellington, 8

  exercise

  Jusserand, 1–2

  exhaustion

  Stengel, 6

  exhibitionism

  Kaufman, 5

  exile

  Charles X, 2

  expectations

  Jordan, 1

  Liszt, 3

  Maris, 2

  Monroe, 2

  expediency

  Chwolson, 1

  expenditures

  Fonda, J., 2

  expense accounts

  Fowler, 1

  experience

  Carter, 10

  Johnson, S., 21

  Wellington, 4

  experiments

  Avery, 1

  Bacon, 5

  Bell, J., 1

  Edison, T. A., 3

  Hevesy, 1

  Ruskin, 1

  experts

  Rowland, 1

  explanations

  Feynman, 2

  Thompson, 1

  explorers

  Charles V, 2

  Columbus, 1–2

  David, 1

  Eric the Red, 1

  Hillary, 1

  Lloyd George, 5

  Mallory, 1

  Oates, 1

  Park, 1

  Peary, 1

  Smith, S., 2

  Stanley, 1

  Thomson, J., 1

  Wilde, 3

  extortion

  Themistocles, 1

  extraterrestrial life

  Knox, R., 1

  Szilard, 1

  extravagance

  Beecham, Sir T., 1

  Bennett, J. G., 3–4

  eyeglasses

  Davenant, 1

  Ibsen, 2

  Lenya, 1

  eyesight

  Dayan, 1

  faces

  Rose, 3

  fact

  Twain, 2

  failure

  Alexander G., 1

  Churchill, R. F. E. S., 1

  Crenshaw, 2

  Davis, A., 1

  Kissinger, 5

  Monroe, 2

  Thomas, N., 3–4

  Wellington, 8

  fairness

  Carter, 2

  Lombardi, 2

  faith

  McGraw, 1

  fame

  Alcott, L. M., 1

  Allen, W., 1

  Anders, 1

  Auden, 4

  Balzac, 4

  Bankhead, 8

  Berra, 18

  Brahms, 6

  Caine, 1

  Copland, 1

  Crawford, 1–2
r />   Curie, 1

  Davy, 1

  Disney, 1

  Elizabeth the Queen Mother, 5

  Faulkner, 4

  Hayes, H., 3

  Holmes, J., 1

  Holmes, O. W., Sr., 5

  John XXIII, 2

  Kreisler, 3

  Macauley, 5

  Miller, 1

  Napoleon I, 6

  Oldfield, 1

  Peck, 1

  Robinson, E. A., 1

  Schönberg, 1

  Shaw, 24

  Thomson, R., 1

  familiarity

  Churchill, W., 16

  Eliot, T. S., 7

  Reagan, R., 7

  families

  Allingham, 1

  Edison, C., 1

  Korda, 6

  Lévis, 1

  Quayle, 2

  Thales, 4

  famine

  Lafayette, 1

  fans. See also admirers

  Berra, 17

  Garvey, 1

  fantasies

  D’Annunzio, 2

  Fraguier, 1

  Thorndike, 1

  farewells

  Andersen, 4

  Ross, 10

  Thurlow, 4

  Wylie, 1

  fashion/fashion designers

  Asquith, M., 3

  Balmain, 1

  Brummell, 7

  Carson, 2

  Chanel, 1–2

  de Wolfe, 1

  Dietrich, 2

  George V, 8

  Lee, G. R., 1

  Napoleon I, 2

  fastidiousness

  Chopin, 2

  fasting

  Erasmus, 1

  fatalism

  Caesar, 4

  fate

  Bradford, 1

  Singer, 2

  fathers. See also children; parents

  Carter, 7

  Cyrus II, 1

  Fiennes, 1

  Frederick William I, 1

  Giotto, 3

  Kennedy, J. F., 21–22

  Longworth, 1

  Scott, 4

  Truman, 4

  faux pas

  Austin, W. R., 1

  Bush, B., 2

  Coolidge, 11

  Grant, U. S., 12

  Jefferson, J., 1

  Previn, 1–2

  Reagan, R., 1, 13

  Roosevelt, F. D., 6

  favors

  Halifax, C. M., 1

  Lincoln, A., 7, 19, 29

  Vespasian, 1

  fear

  Clay, C. M., 1

  Clemenceau, 9

  Foch, 2

  Hitchcock, 6

  Khrushchev, 4

  Napoleon, E., 1

  Wells, 3

  fees. See also salaries

  Bing, 7

  Freud, 3

  Holmes, O. W., Sr., 2

  Kemble, F., 1

  Kreisler, 2

  Nilsson, 2–3

  Paderewski, 4

  Schnabel, 1

  Spenser, 1

  Steinmetz, 2

  Stravinsky, 5

  Ward, 1

  Whistler, 4

  feminism

  Astor, N., 2

  Bush, B., 3

  Dole, 2

  Mahaffy, 2

  Montague, 1

  Roosevelt, F. D., 3

  Staël, 5

  fiction/fictional characters

  Balzac, 7

  Carroll, 3

  Cervantes Saavedra, 1

  Dickens, 2

  Grafton, 1

  Ouida, 1

  Trollop, A., 2–3

  fights. See also duels

  Ali, 5

  McCoy, 1

  Mizner, W., 4

  film. See movie directors and producers; movies

  fines

  Lincoln, A., 5

  fingerprints

  Shaw, 22

  fires

  Benton, 1

  Budé, 1

  Cocteau, 1

  Flaherty, 1

  Madison, D., 1

  Nero, 2

  Newton, 2

  Sheridan, R. B., 13

  fireworks

  Cushman, 1

  Richardson, 1

  First Ladies

  Onassis, J., 4

  fishing

  Coolidge, 14

  Twain, 18

  Williams, Ted, 4

  flattery

  Alexander I, 2

  Allen, F., 3

  Armstrong, L., 3

  Augustus, 3

  Bacon, 3

  Caligula, 2

  Chase, S. P., 1

  Clay, H., 4

  Holmes, O. W., Sr., 4

  Nixon, 11

  Parr, 1–2

  Tree, 2

  flirtation

  Alexander I, 2

  Bismarck, 4

  Byron, 3

  de Gaulle, 8

  Depew, 2

  Fontenelle, 3

  Johnson, S., 15

  Sargent, J. S., 5

  flops

  Kaufman, 3–4

  Lamb, Charles, 4

  flowers

  Anthony, S. B., 2

  Carroll, 3

  de la Mare, 1

  Lawrence, D. H., 2

  Meurisse, 1

  Shaw, 13

  flutes

  Cherubini, 4

  flying

  Clemenceau, 9

  Corrigan, 1

  Lindbergh, 1–2

  Wright Brothers, 1

  food

  Barrie, 8–9

  Berra, 6

  Brahms, 8

  Buckland, 1–2

  Burns, 2

  Byron, 2

  Carter, 2

  Clinton, 2

  Davis, A., 1

  Disraeli, 9

  Elizabeth II, 10

  Fisher, 1

  Garland, 1

  Gibbons, 1

  Grant, U. S., 4

  Handel, 1

  Hevesy, 1

  Hitchcock, 1, 4

  Johnson, N., 2

  Lee, R. E., 4

  Louis XVI, 1

  Milnes, 1

  Montecuccoli, 1

  Moore, G. A., 2

  Napoleon I, 13

  Previn, 2

  Rhodes, 2

  Roosevelt, F. D., 5

  Schumann-Heink, 1

  Scott, 2

  Smith, S., 4

  Susann, 2

  Thackeray, 1

  Turner, 2

  Welles, 3

  football

  Ford, G. R., 3

  Gipp, 1

  Lombardi, 1

  Nagurski, 1–2

  Namath, 1

  Thorpe, 1

  forgery

  Picasso, 7

  Mizner, W., 6

  forgetfulness. See also absentmindedness

  Beecham, Sir T., 6

  Charles II, 3

  Disraeli, 6

  Drew, 1

  Emerson, 9

  Gilbert, J., 1

  Matthews, 1–2

  Monroe, 1

  forgiveness

  Cavell, 1

  Frederick William I, 2

  Luther, 1

  Marie, 1

  formality

  Bismarck, 5

  fortitude

  Roosevelt, T., 5

  France

  Aumale, 3–4

  Caen, 1

  de Gaulle, 7

  frauds

  Ingyo, 1

  Johnson, S., 19

  Kahn, 1

  Mizner, W., 6

  Taylor, J., 1

  free association

  Berra, 10

  free will

  Singer, 2

  freedom

  Aymé, 1

  Confucius, 1

  Jefferson, T., 9

  French, the

  Foch, 5

  Gabin, 1

  Johnson, S., 2

  Palmerston, 3

  Voltaire, 4

  Whistler, 18

  French Resistance

  Baker, J., 2


  Boswell, 1

  French Revolution

  Mao Zedong, 2

  friendship

  Addison, 3

  Bacall, 3

  Boswell, 1

  Byron, 1

  Cagney, 2–3

  Castracani, 1

  Cather, 1

  Cimon, 1

  Cohan, 4

  Coleridge, 6

  de Gaulle, 5

  Frith, 1

  Goldwyn, 18

  Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 2

  Heine, 3

  Julia, 3

  Korda, 1

  Lafayette, 3

  Levant, 1

  Lincoln, A., 32

  Lyndhurst, 1

  North, 4

  Reagan, R., 7

  Ruskin, 2

  Shaw, 18

  Wittgenstein, 1

  frivolity

  Cunard, 1

  frugality

  Boult, 1

  Socrates, 1

  frustration

  Lowell, Amy, 2

  funerals. See also burials

  Allen, E., 3

  Andersen, 3

  Asquith, M., 3

  Auber, 3

  Barrie, 2

  Barrymore, M., 1

  Chesterfield, 4

  Cohn, 1

  Degas, 4

  Houdini, 2

  Ikku, 1

  Mayer, 6

  Norbury, 2

  Parker, D., 12

  Rockefeller, N. A., 1

  Thomas, D., 3

  Voltaire, 9

  furniture

  Baldwin, 2

  Benchley, 1

  Mizner, W., 6

  Tennyson, 8

  gallantry

  Acheson, 3

  Barrymore, J., 9

  Chesterton, 6

  Edward III, 1

  Franklin, 1

  Jarry, 2

  Maugham, 3

  Raleigh, 1

  Tracy, 2

  Woollcott, 7

  gambling

  Bernard, 3

  Campbell, T., 2

  Crockford, 1

  Fox, C. J., 4

  Giamatti, 1

  Korda, 2

  games. See also card games and other specific games

  Napoleon I, 1

  Spencer, 1

  gangsters

  Capone, 1

  gardening

  Emerson, 1

  Russell, B., 5

  gardens

  Coleridge, 4

  genealogists

  Smith, S., 5

  General Motors

  Wilson, C. E., 1

  generosity

  Alexander III, 3

  Auden, 7

  Brahms, 1

  Corot, 1

  Ford, H., 4

  Gandhi, 4

  Hume, 3

  Ibn Saud, 2

  Lafayette, 1

  Nelson, 5

  Noyes, 1

  genius

  Apelles, 1

  Aquinas, 1

  Bernstein, H., 1

  Feynman, 1

  Gershwin, G., 3

  Mansart, 1

  Mozart, 8

  Paderewski, 1

  Sarasate, 2

  Staël, 1

  Whistler, 8

  Wilde, 2

  gentlemen

  Eden, A., 1

  Germans

  Adenauer, 1

  Waugh, 5

  ghost stories

  Shelley, M., 1

  ghosts

  du Deffand, 2

  gifts

  Albermarle, 1

  Armour, 1

  Arnould, 3

  Baker, J., 1

  Cameron, J. M., 1

  Carroll, L., 1

  Clemenceau, 1

  Corot, 1

  Dali, 3

  Elizabeth II, 3

  Franks, 1

  Gray, 1

  Ibn Saud, 2

  Johnson, W., 1

  Lamb, Caroline, 1

  Lawrence, T. E., 1

  Mastroianni, 1

  Meurisse, 1

  Park, 1

  Patti, 1

  Perot, 1

  Rachel, 4

  Reisenauer, 1

  Rockefeller, J. D., Sr., 1

  Smith, S., 7

  Toscanini, 3

  Vanderbilt, A., 1

  girdles

  Zaharias, 1