Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes

by Clifton Fadiman

  glasses

  Monet, 2

  gluttony

  Louis XVI, 1

  Pinza, 1

  Ruth, 2

  Schumann-Heink, 1

  Tetrazzini, 1

  goads

  Gosse, 4

  God. See also clergy; religion

  Balzac, 9

  Bolt, 1

  Haldane, J. B. S., 1

  Howe, J. W., 1

  Huston, 2

  John III Sobieski, 1

  Ker, 1

  Kittredge, 1

  Lincoln, A., 14

  Owen, 1

  Paine, 4

  Sellers, 2

  Smith, F. E., 7

  Stravinsky, 9

  Thoreau, 7

  Waln, 1

  Wayne, 1

  Williams, Ted, 4

  godfathers

  Jullien, 1

  Woollcott, 8

  gods

  Alexander III, 1

  gold

  Kirchhoff, 1

  golf

  Ali, 3

  Archer, G., 1

  Asche, 1

  Bolt, 1

  Bush, G., 4

  Castlerosse, 1

  Eisenhower, 5–6

  Grant, U. S., 11

  Hogan, 1

  Marquis, 2

  Mayer, 4

  Nixon, 11

  Penick, 1

  Snead, 1

  golfers

  Farr, 1

  Nicklaus, 1

  Zoeller, 1

  Gordian knot

  Alexander III, 4

  gossip

  Coolidge, 20

  Lowell, R., 1

  gourmets

  Brillat-Savarin, 1

  governesses

  Brontë, 1

  government

  Carter, 9

  Cromwell, 2

  Franklin, 4

  Giolitti, 1

  Quesnay, 1

  Talleyrand, 12

  graduations

  Dyson, 1

  graft. See also corruption

  Curley, 1

  Nixon, 1

  grammar

  Austin, A., 1

  Bouhours, 1

  Churchill, W., 24

  Dean, 2

  Greeley, 4

  Malherbe, 1

  Tooke, 1

  Woollcott, 9

  Grand Canyon

  Foch, 4

  grandeur

  Bacon, 3

  Balsan, 1

  Morgan, J. P., Sr., 3

  gratitude

  Augustus, 2

  Berra, 4

  Emerson, 5

  Gray, 1

  Maugham, 4

  graves. See burial

  greed

  Ade, 1

  Albemarle, 1

  Armour, 1

  Darius I, 2

  Freud, 3

  Patti, 1

  Rachel, 4

  Raleigh, 6

  Richard I, 2

  Schwartz, M., 1

  Trollope, A., 2

  Vespasian, 1

  Victor Amadeus II, 1

  Greenland

  Eric the Red, 1

  greetings

  Hemingway, 9

  Lillie, 3

  Marx, G., 13

  Stanley, 1

  Wodehouse, 1

  grief. See also bereavement

  Cohan, 4

  Rossetti, 2

  Thales, 4

  growing up

  Allen, F., 1

  grudges

  Barton, 1

  guarantees

  Wilson, W., 1

  guests

  Andersen, 2

  Arnold, 1

  Balzac, 8

  Bembo, 1

  Bernard, 5

  Bismarck, 6

  Brodie, B. C., 1

  Brummell, 4

  Byron, 2

  Chamberlain, A., 2

  Chopin, 1

  Churchill, W., 31

  Disraeli, 9

  Edison, T. A., 7

  Einstein, 7

  Fleming, I., 1

  Foster, 1

  Francis Joseph, 1

  Gleason, 1

  Hitchcock, 1, 3

  Hook, 3

  Huxley, A., 2

  Jackson, T. J., 6

  Kreisler, 2

  Levant, 4

  Maeterlinck, 1

  Maugham, 2

  Previn, 2

  Rogers, W., 1

  Sheridan, R. B., 1

  Strachey, 1

  Susann, 2

  Trench, 2

  Waugh, 4

  Woollcott, 10

  gullibility

  Ford, B., 3

  gunfire

  Reagan, R., 15

  gymnasts

  Strug, 1

  habit

  Hilbert, 1

  hairdos

  Onassis, J., 3

  Reagan, N., 5

  halitosis

  Gelon, 1

  Woollcott, 5

  Halley’s Comet

  Twain, 23

  handicaps

  Bernhardt, 8

  Hoy, 1

  Roosevelt, F. D., 11

  Thurber, 8

  hands

  Rachmaninoff, 2

  handwriting

  Courteline, 1

  Greeley, 5–6

  Macready, 1

  hanging

  Fleetwood, 1

  happiness

  Barrymore, E., 3

  Onassis, J., 7

  Russell, B., 5

  harems

  North, 1

  Harvard

  Eliot, C. W., 1–2

  Wayne, 2

  hats

  Brodie, B. C., 1

  Lee, G. R., 1

  Victoria, 18

  Wells, 1

  Wilde, 16

  headmasters

  Taft, H. D., 1

  health

  Adams, J. Q., 2

  Lawrence, D. H., 2

  Sigismund, 1

  Tennyson, 10

  heart attacks

  Montgomery, B. L., 4

  heaven

  Andrew, 1

  Cocteau, 5

  Edward VII, 5

  Rose, 4

  Sedgwick, C., 1

  hecklers

  Addison, 1

  Alexander, George, 1

  Astor, N., 3

  Beecher, 1

  Buddha, 2

  Clay, H., 6

  Clinton, 1

  Khrushchev, 4

  Lamb, Charles, 7

  Lloyd George, 1

  Macaulay, 4

  Shaw, 3

  Smith, A. E., 2

  Stein, 2

  Stravinsky, 1

  Wilson, Harold, 1

  hedonism

  Leo X, 1

  Zoeller, 1

  height

  Barrie, 2

  Benchley, 10

  Busby, 2

  Hofmann, 1

  Jarry, 3

  Lincoln, A., 11, 13

  Lloyd George, 4

  Napoleon I, 7

  Rodgers, 1

  Weaver, 2

  hell

  Andrew, 1

  Cocteau, 5

  Greeley, 7

  Labouchere, 3

  Lloyd George, 1

  Luther, 2

  Rose, 4

  hemorrhoids

  Tennyson, 7

  heredity

  Whistler, 8

  heresy

  Servetus, 1

  heroes/heroism

  Alençon, 1

  Chaplin, 5

  Churchill, W., 15

  Clark, G. R., 1

  Oates, 1

  hiccups

  Mytton, 1

  hints

  Haydn, 2

  Rossini, 8

  hippopotamus

  Darwin, C. R., 3

  history

  Churchill, W., 11

  Michelet, 1

  Reagan, R., 5

  Truman, 3

  hoaxes

  Hill, J., 1

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p; Hook, 2

  hobbies

  George V, 1

  holidays

  Charles, Prince, 2

  Hollywood

  Algren, 1

  Bacall, 3

  Carter, 10

  Coote, 1

  Garbo, 4

  Reagan, R., 10

  home runs

  Musial, 1

  Ruth, 4, 8

  homes. See also housing

  Berra, 12

  hometowns

  Coolidge, 21

  Cooper, Gary, 1

  Sedgwick, C. M., 1

  homosexuality

  Auden, 1

  Goldwyn, 4

  Strachey, 2

  Wilde, 14

  Williams, Tennessee, 2

  honesty

  Churchill, W., 18

  Frederick II, 2

  Lenclos, 3

  honeymoons

  Parker, D., 1

  honor

  Aquinas, 1

  Liliencron, 2

  Napoleon I, 12

  honors

  Avempace, 1

  Bialik, 1

  Cato, 3

  Clemenceau, 2

  Disraeli, 9

  James, H., 8

  Mably, 3

  Nelson, 3

  hope

  Alexander III, 3

  Johnson, S., 22

  horse racing

  Campbell, T., 2

  Crockford, 1

  horses

  Alexander III, 2

  Anne, Princess, 3

  Bernard, 6

  Charles II, 1

  Fleetwood, 1

  Fonda, J., 2

  Hobson, T., 1

  Monroe, 6

  Nagurski, 2

  Nicholson, 1

  horticulture

  Parker, D., 6

  hospitality

  Khrushchev, 1

  Napoleon I, 4

  Spooner, 1

  Stalin, 3

  hospitals

  Millay, 1

  Mizner, W., 1

  Parker, D., 10

  hosts and hostesses

  Aubernon, 1–2

  Beckford, 1

  Berners, 4

  Bowen, E., 1

  Brahms, 5

  Brummell, 4

  Buckland, 2

  Chamberlain, A., 2

  Chopin, 1

  Chigi, 1

  Churchill, W., 31

  Edward VII, 2, 6

  Emerson, 2

  Gardner, I. S., 3

  Hilbert, 2

  Hook, 3

  Levant, 4

  McCormick, 1

  Mallarmé, 1

  Morgan, J. P., Sr., 5

  Napoleon I, 4

  Necker, 1

  Rhodes, 1

  Sandwich, 1

  Sarasate, 1

  Swift, 2

  Trench, 2

  Wodehouse, 1

  hotels

  Coward, 10

  Gleason, 1

  Hope, 1

  Jefferson, T., 6

  Johnson, S., 14

  Lang, 2

  Marx, G., 5

  Mizner, W., 3

  Roosevelt, T., 2

  Telford, 1

  hot tubs

  Berra, 13

  housing

  Franklin, 13

  Mizner, A., 1

  Victoria, 4

  housework

  Thatcher, 1

  huffiness

  O’Hara, J., 4

  humility

  Aidan, 1

  Callas, 2

  Canute, 1

  Cassatt, 1

  Churchill, W., 15

  Edward VII, 5

  Einstein, 14

  Gandhi, 1, 3

  Hokusai, 1

  James, H., 8

  Kennedy, J. F., 2

  Mably, 1

  Newton, 10

  Paderewski, 3

  Philip II, 3

  Roosevelt, T., 3

  humor. See also comedy

  Campbell, Mrs. P., 7

  Reagan, R., 20

  Woollcott, 3

  humorists. See also comedians

  Ade, 1

  Hungarians

  Szilard, 1

  hunger

  Fisher, 1

  Hitchcock, 1

  Susann, 2

  hunting

  Asquith, M., 2

  Baruch, 2

  Roosevelt, T., 6

  Tennyson, 6

  husbands. See also marriage, wives

  Gabor, 2–3

  Hemingway, 2

  Lytton, 1

  Parker, D., 14

  Victoria, 17

  hypochondria

  Farquhar, 1

  Kaufman, 14

  hypocrisy

  Beria, 1

  Frederick II, 10

  Nixon, 5

  Parker, D., 4

  Talleyrand, 8

  hypocrites

  Reed, 1

  Twain, 5

  idealists

  Giamatti, 1

  identification. See also mistaken identity; recognition

  Abernethy, 5

  Anders, 1

  Berra, 9

  Burton, R., 2

  Eisenhower, 5

  Elizabeth II, 3

  Francis Joseph, 2

  Grant, U. S., 7

  Jackson, T. J., 4

  Jefferson, J., 1

  Newton, 4

  Rubinstein, Artur, 2

  Ruth, 4

  Scheffel, 1

  Spooner, 4

  Twain, 6

  Watson, 1

  identity

  Sellers, 3

  idiots

  Finley, 1

  idleness

  Sebastiano del Piombo, 7

  Thurlow, 1

  idolatry

  Allen, F., 3

  Bernhardt, 10

  McCullers, 2

  ignorance

  Copland, 1

  Cushman, 1

  Fitzgerald, F. S., 1

  Fuller, M. W., 1

  Gesvres, 1

  Goldwyn, 3, 8, 12

  Johnson, S., 5

  Pringle, 1

  Wills, 1

  illegitimacy. See also mothers; paternity

  Gwyn, 2

  illiteracy

  Graziano, 1

  Ibsen, 2

  illness. See also specific illnesses

  Alexander III, 5

  Bing, 3, 9

  Brummell, 5

  Cobb, 1

  Cooper, Gladys, 1

  Curran, 3

  Davis, A., 1

  de la Mare, 1

  Farr, 1

  Gilbert, W. S., 9

  Gunther, 1

  James, H., 6

  Keats, 2

  Lawrence, D. H., 2

  Lincoln, A., 26

  MacMahon, 1

  Paine, 3

  Pope, Alexander, 4

  Sigismund, 1

  Twain, 22

  Woollcott, 9

  illustrations

  Ross, 9

  Twain, 9

  images

  Toscanini, 9

  imagination

  Adams, J., 1

  Balzac, 2

  Beecham, Sir T., 5

  Buckland, 2

  Casals, 4

  Clay, H., 3

  Harris, 3

  Hitchcock, 5

  Hofmann, 2

  Kerr, J., 1

  Melville, 1

  Picasso, 15–16

  imitation

  Armstrong, L., 3

  Chaplin, 2, 4

  Dietrich, 1

  Lee, G. R., 1

  Wilde, 11

  immigrants

  Roosevelt, F. D., 12

  Schnabel, 2

  Stravinsky, 3

  immortality

  Allen, W., 2

  Meyerbeer, 1

  Michelangelo, 2

  impartiality

  Edward III, 2

  imperialism

  Bismarck, 7

  Frederick II, 10

  imposters />
  Connelly, 2

  impotence

  Aumale, 5

  Korda, 4

  impropriety

  Schwab, 1

  improvisation

  Jolson, 1

  Kaufman, 7–8

  Lincoln, A., 36

  Morris, C., 1

  Rossini, 4

  Sandburg, 2

  Unzelmann, 1

  impudence

  Stravinsky, 4

  inaugurations

  Roosevelt, F. D., 6

  Taft, W. H., 1

  incompetence

  Nicholas I, 1

  Philip III, 1

  Wills, 2

  indecency

  Niven, 1

  independence

  Onassis, J., 7

  Indians, American

  Churchill, W., 17

  Cope, 1

  Sheridan, P. H., 1

  Tecumseh, 1

  Indians, Asian

  Churchill, W., 17

  Eliot, J., 1

  indiscretion

  Mathilde, 1

  indolence

  Reagan, R., 19

  infallibility

  Dulles, 1

  Goldwyn, 6

  infatuation

  Shaw, 19

  infidelity. See also love affairs; lovers; mistresses; sex

  Alexander VI, 1

  Alexandra, 1

  Anderson, 1

  Augustus, 6

  Barbirolli, 1

  Bernard, 2

  Boleyn, 1

  Caesar, 3

  Caroline, Duchesse, 1

  Caroline of Brunswick, 2

  Collins, J., 1

  Conti, 1

  Feydeau, 3

  Freud, 1

  Gabor, 2

  Giampetro, 1

  Howard, C., 1

  Julia, 1

  Kaufman, 12

  Parker, D., 4

  Richelieu, 1

  Schwartz, 1

  Tooke, 2

  Webster, N., 1

  infirmity. See also illness

  Adams, J. Q., 2

  Chesterfield, 4

  ingenuity

  Alexander III, 4

  Alexander, S., 1

  Anaximenes, 1

  Archimedes, 3

  Arno, 1

  Avempace, 1

  Baeyer, 1

  Bankhead, 7

  Barnum, 1

  Bing, 3

  Botticelli, 1

  Buffalmacco, 1

  Choate, 2

  Cole, 1

  Columbus, 2–3

  Connelly, 2

  Cummings, 1

  Edward III, 1

  Gibbons, 1

  Ibrahim, 1

  Menelik II, 1

  Mozart, 4

  Perot, 1

  Rabelais, 1

  Victoria, 9

  Voltaire, 4

  ingratitude

  Clark, G. R., 1

  Schwarzenberg, 1

  Shaw, 18

  inheritances. See also wills

  Elizabeth I, 1

  Lear, 2

  Rhodes, 4

  Richelieu, 3

  injuries

  Bridger, 1

  Brummell, 1

  Brunet, 1

  Patton, 1

  Raglan, 1

  Reagan, R., 9

  in-laws

  Churchill, W., 21

  Foch, 4

  Russell, J., 2

  innocence

  Lucas, 2

  O’Toole, 1

  inns. See hotels

  inquisitiveness

  Talleyrand, 1

  insanity

  Chaloner, 1

  George III, 5

  Nerval, 2

  Wolf, 1

  inscriptions. See also autographs

  Allais, 1

  Bowles, W. L., 1

  Brahms, 7

  Buckley, 2

  Byron, 4

  Cromwell, 5

  Darius I, 2

  Ford, H., 4

  Nash, 1

  Plato, 2

  insects

  Haldane, J. B. S., 1

  Jefferson, T., 5

  insincerity

  Augustine, 1

  Barrymore, J., 2

  Christina, 1

  North, 4

  inspiration

  Austin, A., 1

  Baum, 2

  Beethoven, 3