Memorable Quotations: Humorists, Wits, and Satirists of the Past (Kindle Edition)

by Diana J. Dell (Author)

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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 Tallulah Bankhead, Bernard Baruch, Brendan Behan, Robert Benchley, Ambrose Bierce, Josh Billings, Bertolt Brecht, Vera Brittain, Heywood Broun, Truman Capote, Lewis Carroll, Charlie Chaplin, Lord Chesterfield, Agatha Christie, Cyril Connolly, Benjamin Disraeli, Albert Einstein, Gustave Flaubert, Benjamin Franklin, Paul Goodman, 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, 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.

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

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 137 KB
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Publisher: Diana J. Dell (May 13, 2008)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B0019E2OIC
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #133,976 in Kindle Store (See Bestsellers in Kindle Store)

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