Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes

by Clifton Fadiman

  nuclear war. See atomic weapons

  nudity

  Adams, J. Q., 1

  Bankhead, 11

  Behan, 1

  Blake, W., 1

  Borghese, 1

  Bowra, 1

  Castiglione, 1

  Churchill, W., 18

  Eugénie, 2

  Godiva, 1

  Grable, 1

  Howarth, 1

  Jusserand, 1

  Kaufman, 5

  Lamb, Caroline, 1

  Marx, G., 11

  Moore, G. A., 3

  Poe, 1

  Robert, L., 1

  Scheffel, 1

  Whistler, 6

  numbers

  Ramanujan, 1

  nuns

  Behan, 4

  Teresa, 1

  nursery rhymes

  Parker, D., 10

  oaths

  Louis XVIII, 1

  obedience

  Gibbon, 1

  Grant, U. S., 2

  obesity

  Chesterton, 4, 6–8, 15

  Dietz, 1

  Guines, 1

  Kemble, S., 1

  Paine, 3

  Schumann-Heink, 3

  Taft, W. H., 2–3, 6

  Tetrazzini, 1

  obfuscation

  Adee, 1

  obituaries

  Barnum, 4

  Kipling, 1

  Russell, B., 4

  Twain, 13

  obliviousness

  Coleridge, 3

  Mingus, 1

  obscenity

  Ross, 8

  Twain, 9

  obscurity

  Browning, R., 1

  Jerrold, 1

  observation

  Berra, 11, 14

  Colette, 1

  odds

  Steinbrenner, 1

  Oedipus complex

  Beerbohm, 2

  offices

  Parker, D., 2

  old age. See also longevity

  Adams, J. Q., 2

  Adenauer, 3

  Auber, 3

  Aumale, 5

  Barrymore, E., 1

  Bernhardt, 12

  Cato, 2

  Chesterfield, 3–4

  Chevalier, 2

  Churchill, W., 35–36

  de Gaulle, 12

  Dumas père, 7

  Emerson, 9

  Fontenelle, 2, 4–5

  Holmes, O. W., Jr., 5, 7

  Hyde, C., 1

  Julia, 3

  Maugham, 6

  Michelangelo, 7

  Mises, 1

  Reagan, R., 21

  Rops, 1

  Shaw, 23

  Stengel, 9–11

  Wells, 1

  Olympics

  Nurmi, 1

  omens

  Augustus, 1

  Gregory I, 2

  one-upmanship

  Aumale, 2

  opera. See also music; singers

  Arditi, 1

  Britten, 2

  Edward VII, 7

  Henze, 1

  Nilsson, 1, 4

  Puccini, 1

  Tamagno, 1

  Tetrazzini, 1

  Toscanini, 4

  Ustinov, 1

  opinions

  Strachey, 5

  opportunism

  Richelieu, 3

  oppression

  Confucius, 1

  Euler, 1

  optics

  Newton, 4

  orators, oratory. See speakers; speeches

  orchards

  Emerson, 1

  orphanages

  Ford, H., 4

  outspokenness

  Astor, N., 3

  oysters

  Dali, 7

  Thackeray, 1

  Oz

  Baum, 2

  pacifism

  Debs, 1

  Ford, H., 1

  Fox, G., 1

  Lowell, R., 1

  Rivera, 1

  pageants

  Schiffer, 1

  pain

  Napoleon III, 2

  painters. See artists, visual

  paintings

  Beaton, 2

  Churchill, W., 32, 34

  Corot, 2–3

  Eakins, 1

  Elizabeth II, 11

  Gesvres, 1

  Giorgione, 1

  Havemeyer, 1

  Isabey, 1

  Lévis, 1

  Picasso, 17

  Stein, 11

  Panama Canal

  Charles V, 2

  Knox, P. C., 1

  parades

  Liebling, 1

  Roosevelt, E., 3

  paranoia

  Hugo, 4

  Martin, 2

  pardons

  Debs, 1

  Kidd, 1

  Maria Fëdorovna, 1

  Skelton, 1

  parents. See also children; fathers; mothers

  Alembert, 1

  Bernstein, L., 1

  Clemenceau, 6

  de Gaulle, 4

  Diogenes, 5

  Edward VIII, 3

  George V, 4

  Gibbon, 1

  Patton, 3

  Twain, 7

  Paris

  Duke, 1

  parodies

  Greene, 1

  Partridge, 1

  parties

  Astor, M., 1

  Auden, 6

  Beerbohm, 3

  Brummell, 4

  Chigi, 1

  Edison, T. A., 7

  Fitzgerald, F. S., 3

  Hitchcock, 3

  McCormick, 1

  Shaw, 15

  partners. See collaboration

  passion

  Campbell, Mrs. P., 5

  Strachey, 4

  paternity. See also illegitimacy

  Alexander III, 1

  Burr, 1

  Feydeau, 1

  Julia, 1

  patience

  Churchill, W., 19

  patients

  Garth, 1

  Otto, 1

  patriotism

  Aumale, 3–4

  Baldwin, 1

  Cavell, 1

  Christian X, 1

  Francis II, 2

  Hale, 1

  Palmerston, 3

  Pitt, 4

  Russell, J., 1

  Toscanini, 8

  Washington, 8

  patronage

  Dante, 1

  Robinson, E. A., 2

  Thurlow, 2–3

  patrons

  Boileau, 1

  Raleigh, 6

  Spenser, 2

  peace agreements/treaties

  Alexander III, 6

  Foch, 3

  Grant, U. S., 3

  Kallio, 1

  Napoleon III, 3

  pearls

  Nilsson, 2

  Vanderbilt, A., 1

  peasants

  Talleyrand, 9

  Tennyson, 6

  pedestrians

  George V, 7

  penicillin

  Ali, 6

  pep talks

  Kerr, J., 1

  percentages

  Dreiser, 2

  perfectionism

  Cézanne, 1

  Klemperer, 1

  perfume

  Arnim, 1

  Monroe, 5

  persistence

  Fraguier, 1

  Robert I, 1

  perspiration

  Dreyschock, 1

  Palmerston, 1

  pessimism

  Keynes, 2

  Lloyd George, 2

  Pétain, 2

  Reagan, R., 2

  pestering

  Orsay, 2

  pets

  Campbell, Mrs. P., 4

  Coolidge, 11

  Curran, 2

  Dali, 6

  D’Annunzio, 1

  Green, H., 2

  Kneller, 2

  Mathilde, 1

  Nerval, 1

  Newton, 2

  Nixon, 1

  Pythagoras, 1

  W
ellington, 16

  philanthropists

  Carnegie, 1

  Morgan, J. P., Sr., 7

  philanthropy

  Brandt, 1

  philosophers

  Aristippus, 1, 3

  Descartes, 1

  Diogenes, 1, 4

  Emerson, 6

  Fuller, M., 1

  Hegel, 1

  Hume, 2

  James, W., 1

  Plato, 1

  Russell, B., 5

  Satayana, 1

  Schopenhauer, 1

  Socrates, 1–2

  Teng Shih, 1

  Thales, 3–5

  Voltaire, 6

  Zeno, 1

  philosophy

  Cohen, 1

  Johnson, S., 17

  McGraw, 2

  photographers/photography

  Anders, 1

  Capa, 1

  Elizabeth the Queen Mother, 6

  Kennedy, J. F., 13

  Kennedy, R., 2

  Shaw, 21

  photographs

  Casals, 4

  Hillary, 1

  John XXIII, 3

  Khrushchev, 2

  Monroe, 4

  Stevenson, A. E., 3

  Vidal, 1

  physicists

  Oppenheimer, 1

  physics

  Anders, 2

  Einstein, 3, 15

  Feynman, 2

  pianos

  Liszt, 3

  Paderewski, 3

  piety

  Dante, 2

  pilots

  Corrigan, 1

  Metaxas, 1

  pinching

  Trench, 1

  pioneers

  Clay, H., 3

  pirates

  Caesar, 2

  Kidd, 1

  plagiarism

  Andersen, 1

  Bacon, 2

  Bülow, 3

  Harris, 1

  Hazlitt, 2

  Kelly, M., 1

  Liszt, 2

  Michelangelo, 5

  Plath, 1

  Russell, B., 4

  Twain, 15

  Wilde, 7–8

  plain speaking

  Pringle, 1

  plants

  Schopenhauer, 1

  playwrights. See also writers

  Allais, 2

  Andersen, 1

  Archer, 1

  Barnes, 3

  Beaumont, 1

  Congreve, 1

  Dumas père, 6

  Feydeau, 4

  Harlow, 1

  Kaufman, 1, 7

  Klein, 1

  Lamb, Charles, 4

  O’Neill, 1–2

  Racine, 1

  Shakespeare, 1

  Shaw, 1, 3–4, 16

  Sheridan, R. B., 11

  Skinner, C. O., 1

  Stoppard, 1

  Terry, 2

  pleading

  Aristippus, 2

  poetry

  Boileau, 2

  Browning, E. B., 2

  Browning, R., 1

  Jerrold, 1

  Johnson, S., 19

  O’Hara, F., 1

  Pinter, 1

  Porson, 4

  Sitwell, G., 2

  Tennyson, 3

  poets. See also writers

  Acton, 1

  Auden, 2, 7

  Austin, A., 1

  Babbage, 1

  Bahr, 1

  Denham, 1

  Dryden, 1, 3

  Eliot, T. S., 1, 3–4

  Euripides, 1

  Frost, 1, 3

  Hughes, 1

  Keats, 1

  Levant, 3

  Li Bo, 1

  Lowell, A., 2

  Milton, 1, 3

  O’Neill, 4

  Pope, Alexander, 3

  Robinson, E. A., 1–2

  Roethke, 2

  Rossetti, 2

  Salisbury, 1

  Spenser, 1

  Swinburne, 1

  Voltaire, 5, 7

  Waller, 1

  Whitman, 1

  Wilde, 9

  poison/poisoning

  Alexander III, 5

  Baker, J., 2

  Christie, 2

  Crenshaw, 2

  Nero, 1

  police

  Arnould, 2

  Harriman, 2

  La Guardia, 4

  Nixon, 7

  politicial parties

  Humphrey, 4

  Johnson, L. B., 10

  Luce, C. B., 3

  Packer, 1

  Reagan, R., 12

  politicians. See also diplomats; presidents; statesmen

  Acheson, 1–2

  Astor, N., 1–3, 6

  Bryan, 2

  Buchanan, 1

  Burke, 3

  Canning, 1

  Chamberlain, A., 1

  Churchill, W., 6, 26

  Cicero, 1–2

  Clay, H., 2, 5, 7

  Coolidge, 3–4

  de Valera, 2

  Disraeli, 2–3

  Fouché, 1

  Franklin, 4

  Garrick, 2

  Hadrian, 1

  Harrison, B. (President), 1

  Holles, 1

  Holmes, F. D., 1

  Hoover, 2

  Hruska, 1

  Johnson, L. B., 2

  Kennedy, J. F., 3, 13

  Ledru-Rollin, 1

  Long, 1–2

  Longworth, 2

  Louis XIV, 6

  MacArthur, D., 3

  Macaulay, 4

  Mirabeau, 2

  Muggeridge, 1

  Newton, 5

  Nixon, 1, 4

  North, 2

  Paderewski, 5

  Pitt, 2

  Reagan, R., 9, 13

  Reed, 2

  Roche, 2

  Seward, 1

  Stevens, 2

  Stevenson, A. E., 2, 5, 7

  Thomas, N., 1

  Thoreau, 3

  Townshend, 1

  Truman, 8, 12

  Wilson, W., 2

  politics

  Bülow, 1

  Cicero, 1

  Eastwood, 3

  Eisenhower, 4

  Humphrey, 4

  Reagan, N., 3

  Reagan, R., 3

  Roosevelt, F. D., 3

  Thomas, N., 2–3

  Wilson, Harold, 2

  polls

  Gallup, 1

  pollution

  Whewell, 1

  polo

  Alfonso XIII, 1

  polygamy

  Parker, Q., 1

  pomposity

  Berners, 2

  Edward VII, 8

  Jackson, T. J., 7

  Labouchere, 1

  Lincoln, A., 33

  Louis XIV, 9

  Reed, 1

  Wordsworth, 1

  popes

  John XXIII, 4

  Leo X, 1

  popularity

  Armstrong, L., 5

  Beethoven, 2

  Bush, B., 1

  Chaplin, 1

  Dickens, 2

  Ford, G. R., 4

  Kennedy, E., 1

  Kennedy, J. F., 16–17, 19

  Mayer, 6

  Onassis, J., 5–6

  Reagan, R., 15

  pornographers

  Harris, 2

  portraits

  Blake, W., 3

  Buddha, 1

  Cézanne, 1

  Churchill, W., 34

  Cromwell, 1

  Elizabeth the Queen Mother, 6

  Gainsborough, 1

  Gladstone, 2

  Henry VIII, 2

  Hogarth, 1

  Holmes, O. W., Jr., 4

  Isabey, 1

  John, A., 1

  Joyce, James, 4

  Joyce, John, 2

  Kneller, 2

  Koppay, 1

  Liebermann, 1

  Michelangelo, 2

  Molnár, 3

  Picasso, 2–3, 18

  Plotinus, 1

  Prokofiev, 1

  Rigaud, 1


  Sargent, J. S., 2–4

  Shaw, 20–21

  Siddons, 2

  Thackeray, 3

  Tintoretto, 1

  Titian, 1

  Washington, 9

  Whistler, 6

  postal service

  Faulkner, 1

  postscripts

  Selwyn, 6

  potatoes

  Liliencron, 1

  poverty

  Alcott, A. B., 1

  Bach, J. S., 1

  Balzac, 2, 5

  Caligula, 3

  Gibbons, 1

  Rochefort, 2

  Shuter, 1

  power

  Chesterton, 12

  Strug, 1

  Themistocles, 2

  practical jokes

  Barrie, 6

  Benchley, 3

  Bogart, 1

  Buckland, 2

  Cuvier, 1

  Eugénie, 1

  Franklin, 8

  Gide, 1

  Giotto, 2

  Greeley, 6

  Greene, 1

  Halifax, E., 1

  Hill, J., 1

  Hitchcock, 7

  Hook, 1

  Huston, 1

  Ikku, 1

  Jones, J., 4

  Marx, G., 11

  Partridge, 1

  Piccard, 1

  Porson, 1

  Ross, 5–6

  Smith, S., 1

  Troy, 1

  practicality

  Cocteau, 1

  Cromwell, 3

  Edison, T. A., 5

  Graves, 1

  practice

  Paderewski, 1

  praise

  Constable, 1–2

  Emerson, 8

  Klemperer, 1

  Lewis, M. G., 1

  Olivier, 1

  Rogers, S., 4

  Sarasate, 2

  Sitwell, E., 2

  Turner, 5

  Voltaire, 10

  prayer

  Aubigné, 1

  Baylis, 2

  Bion, 1

  Cinque, 1

  Johnson, L. B., 7

  Lincoln, A., 18

  Spellman, 2

  preaching

  Coleridge, 7

  Lamb, Charles, 6

  predestination. See fate

  predictability

  Haldane, 2

  predictions

  Aidan, 1

  Blake, W., 2

  Gallup, 1

  Onassis, J., 4

  Partridge, 1–2

  Peale, 1

  Stengel, 4

  Thurber, 9

  preference

  Kennedy, J. P., 5

  Onassis, J., 6

  pregnancy

  Arnould, 4

  Aubernon, 3

  Coke, 1

  Collins, J., 1

  Kennedy, J. F., 9

  Marie Antoinette, 2

  prejudice

  Belloc, 1

  Eastwood, 2

  Jessel, 1

  Thackeray, 2

  Thomas, M. C., 1

  premonitions

  Lincoln, A., 35

  preparations

  Nixon, 2

  Taft, W. H., 7

  prescriptions

  Brahms, 8

  Lamb, Charles, 3

  Macready, 1

  Presidency, the

  Coolidge, 12, 20

  George V, 2

  presidents. See also elections; politicians

  Adams, J., 2

  Buchanan, 2

  Carter, 7

  Cleveland, G., 1

  Coolidge, 17

  Dole, 1, 4

  Eisenhower, 4

  Fillmore, 1

  Garfield, 1

  Goldwater, 2

  Hoover, 4

  Jefferson, T., 10

  Kennedy, E., 1

  Kennedy, J. F., 4, 10, 18

  Lincoln, A., 12, 31

  Longworth, 1

  Lowell, Abbott Lawrence, 1

  McKinley, 1

  Nixon, 3–4, 10

  Onassis, J., 3

  Reagan, N., 2

  Reagan, R., 13

  Reed, 2

  Roosevelt, F. D., 1, 6

  Ruth, 1

  Seward, 1

  Stevenson, A. E., 9

  Taft, W. H., 5

  Thomas, N., 1

  Truman, 3, 7, 9