Brahms, 10
Brown, C. B., 1
Chekhov, 3
Coleridge, 2
Forgy, 1
Gipp, 1
Ibsen, 3
Jones, J., 1
Kerouac, 2
Levant, 3
Massanet, 1
McCullers, 3
Picasso, 15
O’Hara, F., 1
Toscanini, 9
insults
Abernethy, 1
Adams, F. P., 4–5
Alcibiades, 1
Ali, 2
Allen, F., 2
Aristippus, 2
Armour, 1
Arnold, 1
Arnould, 1, 3–4
Asche, 1
Asquith, M., 1–2
Astor, N., 1
Bacon, 4
Bankhead, 10
Barham, 2
Barrow, 1
Barrymore, E., 2
Barrymore, J., 3, 5–6, 8
Beaverbook, 1
Beecham, Sir T., 2, 8, 11
Beecher, 2–3
Beethoven, 1
Belloc, 2
Benton, 2
Berners, 1
Blumenthal, 1
Boswell, 2
Brahms, 4
Brummell, 3
Bryan, 2
Buchanan, 1
Buckingham, 1
Busby, 2
Butler, B. F., 1
Canning, 2
Carter, 6
Charles II, 8
Chesterton, 5, 15
Choate, 3
Churchill, W., 7, 23, 30
Cicero, 1
Clay, H., 1–2, 7
Coward, 3–4
Crockett, 2
Curran, 2
Dante, 1
Demosthenes, 1
Denis, 1
Dietz, 1
Disraeli, 2, 8
Dumas père, 2
Ellenborough, 2
Elliot, 1
Fillmore, 1
Foote, 3
Ford, G. R., 2
Fuller, M. W., 1
Fuseli, 1
Gardner, I. S., 1–2
George IV, 3
Gilbert, W. S., 5, 8
Goering, 1
Goldsmith, 1
Grant, U. S., 6
Greeley, 1–2
Grote, 1
Haeseler, 1
Handel, 4
Hazlitt, 2
Hill, R., 2
Howells, 1
Johnson, L. B., 1
Johnson, S., 25
Kaufman, 1, 6
Koussevitsky, 3
Landowska, 1
Lehmann, 1
Lichtenberg, 1
Liebermann, 1
Liszt, 1
Lloyd Weber, 1
Lunt, 2
Maury, 2
Meyerbeer, 2
Mugnier, 1
Musset, 1
Namath, 1
Norbury, 1
Parker, D., 3, 15
Phillips, 2
Porson, 4–5
Rachel, 5
Raphael, 1
Sandwich, 1
Seeley, 1
Shaw, 2, 8, 15
Sheridan, P. H., 2
Sheridan, R. B., 3, 11
Skinner, C. O., 1
Smith, A. E., 2
Smith, F. E., 2, 5
Staël, 4
Stevens, 2
Strachey, 1
Talleyrand, 7
Voltaire, 15
Whistler, 15–17
Wilde, 7–10, 15
Wilkes, 1–3
Wilson, W., 2
Woollcott, 10
Wordsworth, 2
integration
Everett, 1
Truth, 1
integrity
Nixon, 3
intellectuals
Holmes, O. W., Sr., 3
Stevenson, A. E., 2
intelligence
Feynman, 1
Luce, C. B., 3
Spellman, 1
interference
Finley, 1
interrogations
Cobb, 2
Rochefort, 1
interruptions
Astor, N., 3
Churchill, W., 28
Johnson, L. B., 9
Kemble, J. P., 1
Levant, 2
Macmillan, 1
Madison, J., 1
Russell, B., 1
interviews
Adams, J. Q., 1
Bing, 2
Bowles, P., 1
Carson, 1
Channing, 1
Cleveland, G., 2
Emerson, 3
Frost, 2
Kennedy, E., 3
Maeterlinck, 2
Ruth, 5
Steinbeck, 1
Twain, 11
Waugh, 6
intimidation
Armstrong, L., 1
Jackson, A., 2
Tintoretto, 1
introductions
Albert, E., 1
Anderson, 1
Asquith, M., 1
Caroline of Brunswick, 1
Choate, 3
Coolidge, 13
Franklin, 10
James, H., 4
Johnson, S., 11
Karl Alexander, 1
Peard, 1
Robinson, E. A., 1
Tree, 5
inventions
Alexander I, 3
Archimedes, 2
Baeyer, 1
Brodie, W., 1
Degas, 1
Edison, T. A., 3
Howe, E., 1
Mao Zedong, 1
Schönbein, 1
inventors
Bell, A. G., 1
Edison, T. A., 1, 4, 6–7
Ford, H., 6
Fuller, R. B., 1
Kaufman, 3
Kennedy, J. F., 12
Thoreau, 5
Watt, 1
Westinghouse, 1
investment
Astor, J. J., 2
Baruch, 1
George I, 1
Gould, 2
Green, H., 1
Newton, 9
Thales, 2
invitations
Barrymore, J., 6
Butler, S., 4
Dahn, 1
Edward VII, 1
Foster, 1
Goethe, 1
Roosevelt, F. D., 6
Rose, 5
Sarasate, 1
Shaw, 14
Spooner, 1
West, 4
Ireland
Cole, 1
Collins, M., 1
Curran, 1
de Valera, 1
Irish, the
Kennedy, J. P., 1
irony
Roosevelt, F. D., 1
irreverence
Altman, 1
Bacall, 1
Israel
Weizmann, 1
Italy
Giolitti, 1
jealousy
Ali, 1
Beckett, 2
Columbus, 2
Gielgud, 4
Nesbit, 1
Nixon, 6
North, 1
Rogers, S., 4
Jerusalem
Armstrong, N., 3
jesters
Skelton, 1
jewels
Arnould, 3
Cornelia, 1
Havemeyer, 1
Lennon, 1
Taylor, E., 1
Morgan, J. P., Sr., 2
Jews. See also anti-Semitism
Adler, 1
Blomberg, 1
Kennedy, J. F., 10
La Guardia, 3
Liebling, 1
Perlman, 1
jinxes
Lincoln, R. T., 1
jokes
Coolidge, 13
Lincoln, A., 18
Twain, 9
Victoria, 14
journalism
Hearst, 1
journalists
Adams, J. Q., 1
/>
Bing, 2
Carlton, 2
Carson, 1
Cleveland, G., 2
Clinton, 5
Connelly, 2
Coolidge, 10
Crane, 1
Curie, 1
Duse, 1
Foch, 1
Fowler, 1
Frost, 2
Gibson, 1
Hearst, 3
Hudson, 1
Johnson, L. B., 2, 6
Maeterlinck, 2
O’Neill, 1
Pyle, 1
Reagan, R., 17
Schmidt, 2
Steinbeck, 1
Twain, 1–2
judges
Cambyses II, 1
Coolidge, 3
Ellenborough, 1
Holmes, O. W., Jr., 4, 6
Landis, 1
Lincoln, A., 5
Mansfield, 1
North, 3
Philip II, 1
Smith, F. E., 2, 5, 7
justice
Ibn Saud, 1
Julian, 1
La Guardia, 1
Philip II, 1
Socrates, 2
Solomon, 1
kidnappers
Anne, Princess, 2
Caesar, 2
Kissinger, 6
killing. See also murder
Eastwood, 2
kindness
Gilbert, W. S., 9
Rhodes, 1
kissing
Bing, 9
Duse, 1
Halifax, E., 1
Joyce, James, 7
Sargent, J. S., 5
knowledge
Euclid, 2
Ford, H., 3
Pompadour, 1
Shaw, 7
Talleyrand, 4
laboratories
Edison, T. A., 6
lambs
Scott, 2
landlords
Halbe, 1
Telford, 1
landscapes
Queensberry, 1
landslides
Kennedy, J. F., 7
language
Aymé, 1
Dean, 3
Hamsun, 1
Horowitz, 3
Koo, 1
Laemmle, 1
Shaw, 10
language barriers. See also accents, foreign
Franklin, 11
Lindbergh, 2
Reagan, R., 13
languages
Bing, 1
Callas, 1
Metternich, K., 1
Nasser, 1
Villiers, 1
Whistler, 5
last words. See also death; deathbeds; dying
Adams, J., 4
Adams, J. Q., 3
Addison, 4
Allen, E., 4
Azeglio, 1
Barnum, 3
Barrymore, E., 3
Barrymore, J., 9
Behan, 4
Bell, A. G., 2
Bouhours, 1
Burr, 2
Caesar, 9
Catherine of Aragon, 1
Cavell, 1
Charles II, 9
Colette, 1
Comte, 1
Cooper, Gladys, 1
Danton, 1
Dreiser, 1
Elizabeth I, 7
Euler, 1
Favras, 1
Field, J., 1
Frederick William I, 3
Frohman, 1
George V, 9
Gilbert, H., 1
Gipp, 1
Goethe, 3
Green, J. H., 1
Hale, 1
Heine, 2
Henry, 1
Holmes, J., 3
Holmes, O. W., Jr., 8
Housman, 1
Hull, I., 1
Ibsen, 4
Jackson, T. J., 8
Kelly, G., 1
Ker, 2
Louis XV, 5
McKinley, 2
Maria Theresa, 1
Mizner, W., 4
Montagu, 2
Montcalm, 1
Narváez, 1
Nelson, 7
Newton, 10
Norbury, 3
O’Neill, 3
Patton, 3
Perugino, 2
Pitt, 4
Pompadour, 2–3
Rhodes, 3
Rousseau, 1
Saroyan, 1
Sedgwick, J., 1
Sobhuza II, 1
Stein, 10
Thurber, 10
Tolstoy, 2
Vega Carpio, 1
Villa, 1
Wilde, 18–19
last rites
Toulouse-Lautrec, 1
lateness
Berra, 15–16
Levant, 5
Milton, 3
Monroe, 7–8
Newman, 1
Onassis, J., 8
Latin
Este, 1
laughter
Benchley, 12
Galen, 1
Garland, 1
Lincoln, A., 24, 36
Titian, 1
law
Solon, 1
lawsuits
Sage, 1
Smith, F. E., 3
Yusupov, 1
lawyers
Ade, 1
Brougham, 1
Choate, 2, 5
Curran, 2
Darrow, 2
Ellenborough, 1
Fraguier, 1
Grant, U. S., 6
Holmes, O. W., Jr., 2
James I, 1
Jefferson, T., 14
Kennedy, J. F., 11
Knox, P. C., 1
Lincoln, A., 4, 6
Norbury, 2
Root, 1
Sage, 1
Smith, F. E., 2–5
Thurlow, 4
Webster, D., 5, 7–10
laziness
Barrymore, J., 1
Briand, 2
Reagan, R., 19
Webster, D., 1–2
leadership
Aidan, 1
Alexander III, 2
learning
Alfred, 2
Johnson, S., 1
lechers/lechery
Winters, 1
lecturers
Auden, 3, 5
Twain, 6
legality
Nixon, 10
legends
Wayne, 2
Legion of Honor
Clemenceau, 2
legislators. See also Congress; politicians
Solon, 1
leisure
Dionysius II, 1
lesbians
Goldwyn, 4
letters
Alexander, H., 1
Andersen, 4
Beecher, 2
Courteline, 1
Davy, 1
Elizabeth I, 4
Erskine, 1
Haydn, 3
Jefferson, T., 8
Lincoln, A., 27
Marx, G., 12
Sellers, 1
Selwyn, 6
Swift, 1
Talleyrand, 1
Truman, 11
Twain, 14
lexicographers
Johnson, S., 4–5
liars. See also lies
Bernhardt, 7
Bruce, 1
Harris, 2
Moore, G. A., 1
Nixon, 3
Steinbrenner, 3–4
libel
Coolidge, 16
Yusupov, 1
liberals
Ingersoll, 1
Johnson, L. B., 10
liberty
Paine, 1
Roland, 1
libraries
Dickens, 6
‘Omar, 1
librettists
Arditi, 1
Puccini, 1
lies. See also liars
Allingham, 1
Aumale, 1
Beethoven, 7
Montagu, 2
Niven, 2
North, 3
Paquin, 1
Rub
instein, Anton, 1
Scipio Nasica Serapio, 1
Thales, 5
life jackets
West, 3
lingerie
Du Pont, 1
Picasso, 19
liquor. See also brandy; drinking; drunkenness; wine
Cooper, W., 1
Croll, 1
Fields, 3
Porson, 3
Talleyrand, 10
Trollope, A., 13
Wilde, 18
literalism
Poe, 1
loans
Altenberg, 1
Coolidge, 5
Sheridan, R. B., 7
lobsters
Feydeau, 2
Nerval, 1
logic
Knox, R., 1
Newton, 6
loneliness
Onassis, J., 9
Parker, D., 2
Plath, 1
longevity. See also old age
Adenauer, 3
Auber, 2
Blake, E., 2
Borges, 1
Burns, 3
Cagliostro, 1
Churchill, W., 35
Edward VII, 4
Hayes, H., 4
Navratilova, 1
Philip, Prince, 5
Reagan, R., 23
Sargent, M., 1
Voltaire, 11
longwindedness. See talkativeness
losers
Carter, 4
Napoleon I, 1
lost generation
Stein, 6
love
Andersen, 4
Bernstein, L., 4
Browning, R., 3
Clinton, 4
Twain, 3
love affairs. See also infidelity; lovers; mistresses; sex
Brougham, 3
Carter, 5
D’Annunzio, 2
Eisenhower, 2
Foote, 4
Gabor, 1
Hearst, 4
Kaunitz-Rietburg, 1
Luce, C. B., 1
lovers. See also infidelity; love affairs; mistresses; sex
Cooper, Gary, 2
Gibbon, 1
Louis XV, 1
Mathilde, 1
Nelson, 5
Nesbit, 1
Rachel, 1
Wellington, 15
Werfel, 1
loyalty
Alexander III, 3
Augustus, 2, 6
Butler, B. F., 2
Caroline of Brunswick, 3
Cocteau, 2
Einstein, 11
Frederick II, 8
Hammerstein, 2
Haydn, 4
Louis XVIII, 1
Nero, 5
Roosevelt, T., 1
Theodoric, 1
Washington, 4
Xerxes, 2
luck
Churchill, W., 9
Cocteau, 3
lust
Barrymore, J., 9
Caroto, 1
Chevalier, 2
Petronius, 1
luxury
Richard I, 2
lyricists
Hammerstein, 2
machinery
Archimedes, 2
machismo
Johnson, L. B., 11
magazines
Coleridge, 1
Woollcott, 6
magicians
Houdini, 1–3
magnanimity
Onassis, J., 1
malapropisms
Berra, 18
Roche, 1
malice
Gould, 2
Rogers, S., 1, 4
malignancy
Churchill, R. F., E. S., 2
managers
Lasorda, 1
Steinbrenner, 1
manners
Acton, 1
Astor, N., 5
Barrymore, E., 2
Bembo, 1
Brahe, 1
Brahms, 9
Cadbury, 1
Churchill, W., 22
Cleveland, F. F., 1
Coolidge, 11
Dalton, 1
David, 1
Dumas père, 3
Elizabeth II, 5
Foch, 5
George III, 6
Kingsale, 1
Lear, 1
Louis XIV, 2, 8
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