Product Description
This enjoyable and thought-provoking compilation features words of wisdom, insight, and comedy from 200 famous (and not so well-known) humorists, wits, and satirists of the past, including Jane Ace, George Ade, Nelson Algren, Fred Allen, Minna Antrim, Marcus Aurelius, Tallulah Bankhead, Alvan L. Barach, Djuna Barnes, Natalie Clifford Barney, Bernard Baruch, Vicki Baum, Pierre de Beaumarchais, Brendan Behan, David Ben-Gurion, Robert Benchley, Stella Benson, Nicolas Bentley, John Berryman, Aneurin Bevan, Ambrose Bierce, Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw), Lord Birkett, Violet Bonham-Carter (Lady Asquith), George Borrow, Richard Brautigan, Bertolt Brecht, Gerald Brenan, Fanny Brice, Vera Brittain, Fawn M. Brodie, Heywood Broun, Lenny Bruce, Charles Bukowski, Luis Buñuel, Anthony Burgess, Gelett Burgess, William Burroughs, Samuel Butler, Lord Byron, Herb Caen, Truman Capote, Francesco Caraccioli, Emily Carr, Lewis Carroll, Angela Carter, Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort, Raymond Chandler, Charlie Chaplin, Lord Chesterfield, Maurice Chevalier, Agatha Christie, Sir Winston Churchill, Claud Cockburn, Frank Moore Colby, Cyril Connolly, James Connolly, Quentin Crisp, e. e. cummings, Edward Dahlberg, Salvador Dali, Benjamin Disraeli, J. Frank Dobie, Albert Einstein, William M. Evarts, Bernard Falk, Gustave Flaubert, Ian Fleming, E. M. Forster, Benjamin Franklin, Paul Gallico, W. S. Gilbert, George Glass, Oliver Goldsmith, Paul Goodman, Ruth Gordon, Thomas C. Haliburton, Ian Hay, William Hazlitt, A. P. Herbert, Benny Hill, Alfred Hitchcock, Anthony Hope (Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins), Kin Hubbard (F. McKinney), W. R. Inge, Robert G. Ingersoll, Washington Irving, Alice James, Alfred Jarry, Jerome K. Jerome, Douglas Jerrold, Gerald W. Johnson, Pamela Hansford Johnson, Samuel Johnson, Alphonse Karr, John F. Kennedy, Dorothy Kilgallen, Karl Kraus, Joseph Wood Krutch, Jean de La Bruyère, Jean de La Fontaine, Jean-François de La Harpe, François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Charles Lamb, Andrew Lang, Johann Kaspar Lavater, Stanislaw Lec, Oscar Levant, Abraham Lincoln, Walter Lippmann, David Lloyd George, Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart, Anita Loos, Clare Boothe Luce, Robert Lynd, Archibald MacLeish, Harold Macmillan, Don Marquis, Harriet Martineau, Groucho Marx, John Masefield, Cardinal Jules Mazarin, Mary McCarthy, Marshall McLuhan, Lord Melbourne, H. L. Mencken, Wilson Mizner, Marilyn Monroe, George Moore, Hannah More, Christopher Morley, J. L. Motley, Malcolm Muggeridge, Ethel Watts Mumford, Arthur Murphy, Ogden Nash, George Jean Nathan, O. Henry (William Sydney Porter), Flannery O'Connor, Georgia O'Keeffe, John Oldham, Marcel Pagnol, Dorothy Parker, C. Northcote Parkinson, Norman Parkinson, Cesare Pavese, S. J. Perelman, Pablo Picasso, Ezra Pound, Anthony Powell, V. S. Pritchett, Raymond Radiguet, Sir Walter Ralegh, Jeannette Rankin, Sam Rayburn, Theodor Reik, Ad Reinhardt, Jules Renard, James Reston, Jean Paul Richter, Victor Robinson, Will Rogers, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lord Rosebery, Harold Rosenberg, Helen Rowland, Saki (H. H. Munro), Carl Sandburg, Dorothy L. Sayers, Daniel Schorr, Charles Schulz, Paul Scott, Charles Scribner, Jr., Ellery Sedgwick, John Selden, George Bernard Shaw, Fulton J. Sheen, Robert E. Sherwood, Dame Edith Sitwell, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Logan Pearsall Smith, Adela Rogers St. Johns, Madame de Staël, John Steinbeck, Edith Mendel Stern, Adlai Stevenson, J. August Strindberg, Jonathan Swift, Booth Tarkington, Bert Leston Taylor, James Thurber, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Lionel Trilling, Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner, Orson Welles, Mae West, E. B. White, Oscar Wilde, and Alexander Woollcott.
About the Author
Diana J. Dell, a former college instructor, personnel counselor, second and seventh grade teacher, photographer, business owner, disc jockey, social worker, and journalist, lives in the Boston area. Her other books are A Saigon Party: And Other Vietnam War Short Stories, Memorable Quotations: American Women Writers of the Past, and Memories Are Like Clouds, a 1950s childhood memoir.
