Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes

by Clifton Fadiman

  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
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  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