Memorable Quotations: Humorists, Wits, and Satirists of the Past [Paperback]

Diana Dell (Author)

Book Description

Series: Memorable Quotations | Publication Date: December 27, 2000

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 Minna Antrim, Tallulah Bankhead, Bernard Baruch, Brendan Behan, Robert Benchley, Ambrose Bierce, Josh Billings, Bertolt Brecht, Vera Brittain, Heywood Broun, Gelett Burgess, Lord Byron, Truman Capote, Lewis Carroll, Charlie Chaplin, Lord Chesterfield, Agatha Christie, Cyril Connolly, Benjamin Disraeli, Albert Einstein, Gustave Flaubert, Benjamin Franklin, Paul Goodman, Ian Hay, Kin Hubbard, Alice James, Alfred Jarry, Karl Kraus, Andrew Lang, Walter Lippmann, David Lloyd George, Harriet Martineau, Groucho Marx, Mary McCarthy, H. L. Mencken, O. Henry, Dorothy Parker, Pablo Picasso, Ezra Pound, Jules Renard, Will Rogers, Helen Rowland, Saki, George Bernard Shaw, Fulton J. Sheen, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Logan Pearsall Smith, John Steinbeck, Adlai Stevenson, Jonathan Swift, James Thurber, Lionel Trilling, Mark Twain, E. B. White, and Oscar Wilde.

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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.

Product Details

• Paperback: 292 pages
• Publisher: iUniverse (December 27, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0595165958
• ISBN-13: 978-0595165957
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,414,789 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)