Ned Sherin:The Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations
- Livres de poche 2022, ISBN: 9780198602897
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Deals mainly with English intellectual life during "the last twenty-five years of the eighteenth century and the first twenty-five years of the nineteenth." NS. Stock# 40,388. Vg/ no dj., Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin, [1908], 0, Great Britain: Oxford University Press. Near Fine/Very Good. 2001. New Edition. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0198602898 Hardcover Hardcover The Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations by Ned Sherin 0198602898 New Edition 512pp In The Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations, noted writer and satirist Ned Sherrin has gathered nearly 6,000 quotations drawn from an international cast of humorists and pundits, ranging from Shakespeare, Jane Austen, and Oscar Wilde to Groucho Marx, Monty Python, and Roseanne. Forty themes, from computers to tennis, and over eight hundred quotations, are completely new to this edition. Arranged in themes from Actors and Acting (including Dorothy Parker's famous barb on Katherine Hepburn's Broadway debut, "She ran the whole gamut of the emotions from A to B") to Youth (Georges Courteline, "It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all"), Sherrin has collected the sharpest, the wittiest, the wryest in quips, put-downs, and one-liners. Here are the best lines of comedians and playwrights, novelists and producers, cartoonists and moguls, soldiers and lawyers. Readers will find Woody Allen ("I don't want to achieve immortality through my work...I want to achieve it by not dying"), Noel Coward, Cole Porter, Mae West, Will Rogers, and George Bernard Shaw--as well as literary wags from Kingsley Amis to Evelyn Waugh and Gore Vidal (on Eisenhower in 1964, "reading a speech with his usual sense of discovery"). Each quotation comes with details of who said it, where, and when, while separate keyword and author indices mean the reader will never have to wonder "whose line is it anyway?"Displaying all shades of humor, from dry to sly, subtle to wacky, The Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations will be the perfect resource for public speakers, writers and anyone else who enjoys a sparkling line, a clever pun, or a wickedly clever riposte. ., Oxford University Press, 2001, 3.5<
