Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes

by Clifton Fadiman

  surrender

  Allen, E., 2

  Antheil, 1

  Cambronne, 1

  Grant, U. S., 3

  Montcalm, 1

  Pétain, 2

  suspense

  Hitchcock, 4

  swearing

  Elizabeth II, 9

  Greeley, 3

  Nixon, 5

  Truman, 5

  Twain, 4

  Swedenborgians

  Paine, 2

  swimming

  Shelley, P. B., 2

  Taft, W. H., 3

  symbols, phallic

  Freud, 2

  symbols, power

  Cromwell, 2

  symbols, religious

  Francis of Assisi, 1

  sympathy

  Elizabeth II, 2

  James, W., 2

  Roosevelt, E., 1

  taciturnity

  Abernethy, 6

  Coolidge, 2, 4, 6–7, 10, 18

  Dirichlet, 1

  Meurisse, 1

  tact

  Boileau, 2

  Corot, 1

  Disraeli, 5–6

  Einstein, 7

  George IV, 2

  Isabey, 1

  Marquand, 1

  Mastroianni, 1

  Perón, 1

  Sitwell, E., 1

  Sitwell, G., 2

  Tree, 5

  talent

  Bernstein, H., 1

  Boulanger, N., 1

  Garbo, 3

  Gershwin, G., 3

  Plath, 1

  Stengel, 8

  talkativeness

  Archelaus, 1

  Babbage, 2

  Bankhead, 4

  Bossuet, 1

  Chesterton, 3

  Clay, H., 1

  Coleridge, 3, 7

  Einstein, 1

  Humphrey, 1–2

  James, H., 3

  Lamb, Charles, 6

  Macaulay, 2

  Maury, 1

  Mingus, 1

  Raynal, 1

  Roosevelt, T., 6

  Stengel, 2, 7

  Swift, 2

  tanks

  Churchill, W., 5

  tantrums

  Nilsson, 1

  taste

  Einstein, 21

  Howells, 1

  tattoos

  Bernadotte, 1

  tax collectors

  Voltaire, 13

  taxes

  Victor Amadeus II, 1

  Baldwin, 1

  Capone, 1

  Devonshire, 2

  Faraday, 1

  Godiva, 1

  Helmsley, 1

  Kemble, C., 1

  Louis XIV, 6

  Napoleon III, 1

  Rogers, W., 4

  Ross, 6

  Swift, 5

  Vespasian, 2

  taxidermists

  Clinton, 3

  taxis

  Burnett, 1

  Cobb, 2

  Heyerdahl, 1

  Huxley, T. H., 2

  tea

  Asquith, H., 1

  Auden, 6

  teachers

  Aquinas, 1

  Barr, 1

  Boulanger, N., 1

  Busby, 1

  James, W., 2

  Leschetizky, 1

  Michelet, 1

  Pater, 1

  Piatigorsky, 1

  Rossini, 5

  Santayana, 2

  Schnabel, 1

  Smith, F. E., 1

  Untermeyer, 2

  teaching

  Heifetz, 4

  Steinbeck, 3

  teams

  Lasorda, 1

  technology

  Ruskin, 3

  teeth

  Cope, 1

  Hudson, 1

  teetotalers. See also drinking; drunkenness

  Bryan, 1

  Cook, 1

  Croll, 1

  Hayes, R. B., 1

  Whistler, 7

  telegrams

  Morse, 1

  Thomson, G., 1

  Victoria, 16

  Waugh, 2

  telephones

  Degas, 1

  Levant, 2

  Parker, D., 11

  telescopes

  George III, 1

  television

  Lippert, 1

  MacNeil, 1

  Nixon, 2, 5

  Rose, 5

  Silverman, 1

  temper

  Beethoven, 5

  Bolt, 2

  Campbell, Mrs. P., 1

  Landor, 1

  Macmillan, 1

  temperament

  Anne, Princess, 2

  Churchill, R. F. E. S., 2

  Dole, 3

  Grafton, 1

  Roosevelt, E., 2

  Williams, Ted, 1

  temperance. See teetotalers

  Ten Commandments

  Cerf, 1

  Twain, 5

  tennis

  Navratilova, 1

  territories

  Sherman, W. H., 1

  Texas

  Sheridan, P. H., 2

  tennis

  Budge, 1

  Carillo, 1

  Kiner, 1

  thanks

  Cagney, 2

  theater. See also actors and actresses; rehearsals

  Alexander, George, 1

  Allais, 2

  Barrie, 5

  Baylis, 2

  Bing, 6

  Brady, 1

  Churchill, W., 23

  Cohan, 1

  Coward, 6

  Daudet, 1

  Dennis, 1

  Elizabeth the Queen Mother, 4

  Gilbert, W. S., 8

  Kaufman, 3–4

  Kemble, J. P., 1

  Klöpfer, 1

  O’Neill, 2

  Parker, D., 8

  Rehan, 1

  Reinhardt, 1

  Rodgers, 2

  Shaw, 4

  Terry, 1–2

  Ustinov, 1

  Wilde, 6

  theaters

  Bancroft, 1

  theatrical producers and directors

  Cohan, 1

  Hawtrey, 1

  Tree, 1, 4

  theft/thieves

  Bing, 5

  Brown, G., 1–2

  Cane, 1

  Churchill, W., 27

  Duval, 1

  Freud, 3

  themes

  Guthrie, 2

  threats

  Armstrong, L., 1

  Columbus, 3

  Grey, 2

  Handel, 3

  Inge, 1

  Johnson, A., 1

  Keppel, 1

  Marx, G., 9

  Philip II, 2

  Rogers, W., 2

  thunder

  Dennis, 1

  tigers

  Confucius, 1

  timing

  Carlton, 2

  Monet, 1

  Shaw, 4

  tipping

  Keynes, 1

  Levant, 4

  Rothschild, 1

  tips

  Alvanley, 1

  Bennett, J. G., 3

  Butler, S., 1

  titles, book

  Greene, 2

  Hawthorne, Nigel, 1

  Howe, I., 1

  O’Hara, J., 4

  Salinger, 1

  titles, royal

  Alençon, 1

  torture

  Peter I, 1

  toupees. See wigs

  tourists/tours

  Benchley, 1

  Cook, 1

  Coolidge, 6–7, 24

  Kemble, F., 1

  traditions

  Kennedy, J. P., 5

  Stalin, 3

  traffic

  Thomson, J., 1

  Victoria, 13

  tragedy

  Stalin, 2

  trains

  Churchill, W., 4

  Roosevelt, T., Jr., 1

  Welles, 1

  traitors

  Andre, 1

  Fouché, 2

  Zhou E
nlai, 1

  transformations

  Ali, 6

  translations

  Aubigné, 1

  Eliot, J., 1

  Este, 1

  Pope, Alexander, 1–2

  Thurber, 6

  trapezes

  Moore, M., 1

  travel

  Alexander, S., 1

  Anders, 2

  Armstrong, N., 2

  Columbus, 1

  Cooper, Gary, 2

  Herman, 1

  Mozart, 7

  Thoreau, 6

  treason

  Beaumont, 1

  Gerard, 1

  Harrison, B. (“Signer”), 1

  treaties

  Kallio, 1

  trials

  Barrows, 1

  Burke, 4

  Caroline of Brunswick, 2

  Darrow, 3

  James I, 1

  Julian, 1

  Landru, 1

  Mansfield, 1

  Philip II, 1

  tributes. See also awards; honors

  Carroll, 3

  Cushman, 1

  Gehrig, 1

  Rossetti, 2

  Rossini, 7

  Toscanini, 4

  tricks

  Cole, 1

  Edison, T. A., 2

  Gilbert, W. S., 2

  Johnson, L. B., 5

  Korda, 4

  Pope, Alexander, 1

  Putnam, 1

  Queensberry, 2

  Rubinstein, Anton, 2

  Scott, 1

  Talleyrand, 1

  Thales, 4

  trivia

  Ford, H., 3

  trust

  Alexander III, 5

  Fagiuoli, 1

  Kaufman, 14

  Perugino, 1

  truth

  Newton, 10

  Washington, 1

  turning points

  Mantle, 1

  tuxedos

  Goldwater, 1

  twins

  Piccard, 1

  typographical errors

  Parker, D., 16

  tyrants

  Asoka, 1

  Seneca, 1

  ugliness

  Churchill, W., 30

  Conti, 1

  Giotto, 3

  Heidegger, 1

  Hogarth, 1

  North, 1

  underdogs

  Ali, 5

  Chamberlain, W., 1

  understatement

  Ruth, 2

  undertakers

  Arne, 1

  underwear

  Montagu, 1

  unions

  Cohan, 2

  Welles, 2

  United Nations

  Austin, W., 2

  universities. See academics; scholars; students

  unpopularity

  Kennedy, E., 2

  Van Buren, 1

  upstaging

  Bush, G., 1

  Cowl, 1

  Kennedy, E., 1

  Kennedy, J. F., 19

  Monroe, 6

  urination

  Churchill, W., 29

  urns

  Lewis, S., 4

  vacations

  Brandeis, 1

  Faulkner, 6

  Lloyd George, 3

  Rose, 1

  valedictorians

  Webster, D., 4

  value

  Picasso, 3, 7–8

  vanity. See conceit; selfimportance

  Vaseline

  Sutton, 2

  vegetarians

  Barrie, 8

  Murray, Gilbert, 1

  Schweitzer, 2

  Shaw, 6

  Singer, 1

  Stravinsky, 11

  vengeance

  Gould, 2

  Venice

  Benchley, 1

  venues

  Onassis, J., 2

  verbosity. See talkativeness

  versatility

  Garbo, 3

  veterinarians

  Bismarck, 8

  Clinton, 3

  Otto, 1

  vice presidency, the

  Humphrey, 3

  Johnson, L. B., 9

  Marshall, T. R., 2

  Rockefeller, N. A., 1

  vice presidents

  Adams, J., 2

  Clay, H., 5

  Jefferson, T., 6

  Marshall, T. R., 2

  Roosevelt, T., 2

  vices

  Napoleon III, 1

  Richard I, 2

  victory

  Forrest, 1

  Fraguier, 1

  Henry IV, 1

  Ibrahim, 1

  John III Sobieski, 1

  Kiner, 1

  Napoleon I, 9

  Pyrrhus, 1

  Victoria, 16

  Wellington, 8

  villains

  Lytton, 1

  virtues

  Joyce, James, 1

  West, 1

  vision

  Monet, 2

  visions

  Blake, W., 3

  Constantine, 1

  Swedenborg, 1

  voters/votes

  Fox, C. J., 5–6

  Jowett, 2

  Kennedy, J. F., 17

  Reagan, R., 7

  Stevenson, A. E., 2

  voyeurs

  Godiva, 1

  wagers. See bets

  wages. See salaries

  waiting

  Einstein, 4

  Thalberg, 1

  Wales

  Johnson, S., 9

  wallpaper

  Truman, 2

  war/warfare. See also battles; military leaders; military strategy; soldiers

  Bosquet, 1

  Capa, 1

  Cunard, 1

  Drake, 1–2

  Einstein, 20

  Farragut, 1

  Foch, 3

  Forgy, 1

  Forrest, 1

  Francis II, 1

  Frederick II, 1, 3, 5

  Gabin, 1

  Garrod, 1

  Grant, U. S., 3–5

  Grey, 1

  Haydn, 4

  Hearst, 1

  Holmes, O. W., Jr., 1

  Kennedy, J. F., 2

  Lee, R. E., 1

  Lincoln, A., 14

  Lloyd George, 2

  Lobengula, 1

  Lowell, Amy, 2

  Madison, D., 1

  Napoleon I, 8

  Napoleon III, 3

  Nelson, 6

  Patton, 1

  Peard, 1

  Philip, J. W., 1

  Picasso, 5

  Pyrrhus, 1

  Rivera, 1

  Sherman, W. H., 1

  Stalin, 2

  Washington, 2

  Waugh, 3

  Woollcott, 1

  War of the Worlds

  Barrymore, J., 7

  warnings

  Caesar, 1, 8

  Servetus, 1

  water

  Polk, 1

  Waterloo

  Montgomery, B. L., 3

  wealth. See also millionaires

  Astor, J. J., 1

  Bryan, 3

  Getty, 2

  Hearst, 2

  Hemingway, 4

  Kennedy, J. F., 5

  Morgan, J. P., Jr., 1

  Muir, 1

  Plato, 3

  Rothschild, 1

  Sargent, J. S., 1

  Thales, 2

  Vanderbilt, W. H., 3

  Woollcott, 4

  weapons

  Adams, A. A., 1

  Charondas, 1

  weather

  Eden, W., 1

  Einstein, 22

  Lawrence, T. E., 3

  Partridge, 2

  Sheridan, R. B., 2

  Swift, 5

  Taft, W. H., 1

  weddings

  Louis XVI, 1

  Skinner, O., 1

  weight loss

  Reagan, N., 3

  welcomes

  Kennedy, J. F., 17

  westerns

  Nicholson, 1


  Peckinpah, 1

  whispering

  Pater, 1

  White House

  Kennedy, R., 3

  West, 4

  widowers

  William III, 1

  widows

  Alexandra, 1

  Parker, D., 14

  Richelieu, 3

  wigs

  Morley, C., 1

  will power

  Marquis, 1

  wills (inheritances)

  Fugger, 1

  Lenclos, 5

  Rhodes, 4

  Rubinstein, Artur, 1

  Sheridan, R. B., 12

  Sophocles, 1

  Stevenson, R. L., 1

  wimps

  Rather, 1

  wine

  Brahms, 5

  Brillat-Savarin, 1

  Charlemagne, 1

  Cook, 1

  Evarts, 2

  Fugger, 1

  Joyce, James, 8

  Kelly, M., 1

  Rossini, 8

  Sheridan, R. B., 1

  wishes

  Barnum, 4

  Roosevelt, F. D., 1

  wit

  Churchill, W., 3, 8

  Foote, 2

  Rogers, S., 2

  Wordsworth, 3

  witchcraft

  Jackson, S., 1

  witches

  Mansfield, 1

  Parker, D., 7

  witnesses

  Smith, F. E., 4

  wives. See also marriage

  Allen, E., 3

  Arria, 1

  Beckett, 2

  Beecham, Sir T., 3

  Butler, S., 5

  Byrd, 1

  Cadbury, 1

  Caroline of Brunswick, 3–4

  Carter, 1

  Catherine of Aragon, 1

  Darwin, C. R., 2

  de Gaulle, 1

  Dewey, 1

  Einstein, 11–12, 17

  Gelon, 1

  George III, 3

  George V, 6

  Gladstone, 1

  Guitry, 1

  Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 3

  Heine, 1

  Holmes, F. D., 1–3

  Kennedy, J. F., 1

  Kreisler, 4

  Levant, 3

  Lincoln, A., 13

  Mankiewicz, 2

  Maugham, 5

  Parker, Q., 1

  Somerset, 1

  Susann, 5

  Truman, 5

  Twain, 4

  Victoria, 8

  Werfel, 1

  women

  Carillo, 1

  Disraeli, 11

  Hutton, L., 1

  Monroe, 2

  Ramsey, 1

  Twain, 20

  Zaharias, 1

  women’s rights. See also feminism

  Anthony, S. B., 1–3

  Barton, 2

  Churchill, W., 7

  words

  Allen, D., 1

  Greeley, 4

  Shaw, 1, 10

  Thurber, 4

  Webster, N., 1

  work. See also employment; manual labor

  Brandeis, 1

  Darrow, 5

  Evans, A., 1

  Flaubert, 2

  Harriman, 1

  Johnson, L. B., 3

  Kennedy, J. F., 5

  Kissinger, 4

  Napoleon I, 3

  Tyler, 1

  worry

  Reagan, N., 3

  Twain, 22

  wrinkles

  Elizabeth the Queen Mother, 6

  writers. See also journalists; playwrights; poets

  Adams, F. P., 4

  Addison, 2

  Algren, 1

  Allen, F., 4

  Allingham, 1

  Anderson, 2

  Arlen, 1

  Aymé, 1

  Balzac, 3, 5–7, 9

  Beckett, 1–2

  Behan, 2

  Belloc, 3

  Benchley, 12

  Bennett, A., 1–2

  Bernard, 7

  Berra, 3

  Boileau, 1

  Brontë, 2

  Brown, C. B., 1

  Browning, R., 1

  Buckley, 2

  Butler, S., 2

  Byron, 4

  Cabell, 1

  Campbell, T., 1

  Carlyle, 1

  Carroll, J., 1