1996, ISBN: 9780192800459

UsedGood. The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact (including the dust cover, if applicable). Spine m… Plus…

UsedGood. The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact (including the dust cover, if applicable). Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials., 0, Oxford University Press. Good. 190mm / 120mm. Paperback. 1996. 543 pages. Cover worn<br>Mark Twain once noted that Adam had a un ique advantage--When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before. But once our primordial ancestors began quoting one a nother--perhaps to show off their keen humor and erudition--the h abit became part of what makes us human. And though we often quot e sage advice and learned homilies, by far our favorite quote is the one that makes us, and our audience, laugh. Now, in The Oxfor d Dictionary of Humorous Quotations, noted writer and satirist Ne d Sherrin has gathered nearly 5,000 quotations in a rollicking co llection drawn from an international cast of humorists and pundit s, ranging from Shakespeare, Jane Austen, and Oscar Wilde to Grou cho Marx, Monty Python, and Roseanne. Arranged in themes, from Ac tors and Acting (including Dorothy Parker's famous barb on Kather ine Hepburn's Broadway debut, She ran the whole gamut of the emot ions from A to B) to Parents (P. J. O'Rourke, Because of their si ze, parents may be difficult to discipline properly), to Youth (G eorges Courteline, It's better to waste one's youth than to do no thing with it at all), Sherrin has left no turn unstoned to colle ct the sharpest, the wittiest, the wryest in quips, put-downs, an d one-liners. Here is Senator Wyche Fowler's come-back when asked if he had smoked marijuana in the permissive sixties (Only when committing adultery), William Faulkner on Henry James (One of the nicest old ladies I ever met), George Bush on boredom (What's wr ong with being a boring sort of guy?), S. J. Perelman on God (Who m you doubtless remember as that quaint old subordinate of Genera l Douglas MacArthur), and Adlai Stevenson on Republicans (If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them). The wits of stage and screen are here--includ ing Woody Allen (I don't want to achieve immortality through my w ork...I want to achieve it by not dying), Noel Coward, Cole Porte r, Mae West, Will Rogers, and George Bernard Shaw--as are the lit erary wags from Kingsley Amis and Saul Bellow to Evelyn Waugh and Gore Vidal (on Eisenhower in 1964, reading a speech with his usu al sense of discovery). Each quotation comes with details of who said it, where, and when, while separate keyword and author indic es mean the reader will never have to wonder whose line is it any way? With quotations courtesy of comedians and playwrights, novel ists and producers, cartoonists and moguls, soldiers and lawyers, and displaying all shades of humor, from dry to sly, subtle to w acky, and even unintended, The Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quot ations will be the perfect resource for public speakers, writers and anyone else who enjoys a sparkling line, a clever pun, or a w ickedly clever riposte: after all, says W. Somerset Maughm, Impro priety is the soul of wit. ., Oxford University Press, 1996, 2.5<

1996, ISBN: 9780192800459

Oxford University Press. Good. 190mm / 120mm. Paperback. 1996. 543 pages. Cover worn<br>Mark Twain once noted that Adam had a un ique advantage--When he said a good thing he knew no… Plus…

Oxford University Press. Good. 190mm / 120mm. Paperback. 1996. 543 pages. Cover worn<br>Mark Twain once noted that Adam had a un ique advantage--When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before. But once our primordial ancestors began quoting one a nother--perhaps to show off their keen humor and erudition--the h abit became part of what makes us human. And though we often quot e sage advice and learned homilies, by far our favorite quote is the one that makes us, and our audience, laugh. Now, in The Oxfor d Dictionary of Humorous Quotations, noted writer and satirist Ne d Sherrin has gathered nearly 5,000 quotations in a rollicking co llection drawn from an international cast of humorists and pundit s, ranging from Shakespeare, Jane Austen, and Oscar Wilde to Grou cho Marx, Monty Python, and Roseanne. Arranged in themes, from Ac tors and Acting (including Dorothy Parker's famous barb on Kather ine Hepburn's Broadway debut, She ran the whole gamut of the emot ions from A to B) to Parents (P. J. O'Rourke, Because of their si ze, parents may be difficult to discipline properly), to Youth (G eorges Courteline, It's better to waste one's youth than to do no thing with it at all), Sherrin has left no turn unstoned to colle ct the sharpest, the wittiest, the wryest in quips, put-downs, an d one-liners. Here is Senator Wyche Fowler's come-back when asked if he had smoked marijuana in the permissive sixties (Only when committing adultery), William Faulkner on Henry James (One of the nicest old ladies I ever met), George Bush on boredom (What's wr ong with being a boring sort of guy?), S. J. Perelman on God (Who m you doubtless remember as that quaint old subordinate of Genera l Douglas MacArthur), and Adlai Stevenson on Republicans (If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them). The wits of stage and screen are here--includ ing Woody Allen (I don't want to achieve immortality through my w ork...I want to achieve it by not dying), Noel Coward, Cole Porte r, Mae West, Will Rogers, and George Bernard Shaw--as are the lit erary wags from Kingsley Amis and Saul Bellow to Evelyn Waugh and Gore Vidal (on Eisenhower in 1964, reading a speech with his usu al sense of discovery). Each quotation comes with details of who said it, where, and when, while separate keyword and author indic es mean the reader will never have to wonder whose line is it any way? With quotations courtesy of comedians and playwrights, novel ists and producers, cartoonists and moguls, soldiers and lawyers, and displaying all shades of humor, from dry to sly, subtle to w acky, and even unintended, The Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quot ations will be the perfect resource for public speakers, writers and anyone else who enjoys a sparkling line, a clever pun, or a w ickedly clever riposte: after all, says W. Somerset Maughm, Impro priety is the soul of wit. ., Oxford University Press, 1996, 2.5<

1996, ISBN: 9780192800459

Oxford: Oxford, 1996. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&A… Plus…

Oxford: Oxford, 1996. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall, Oxford, 1996, 3<