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This hilarious collection of humorous quotations, full of wisecracks and wit, snappy comments and inspired fantasy, has been specially chosen by Ned Sherrin. Now with even more quotes on more subjects: from Gambling to Hollywood, from Diets to Shopping. Find the best lines from your favourite... read more
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Characters/People edit
- George Bernard Shaw: Add a description of this character.
- G. Wodehouse
- Ned Sherrin
- Tom Stoppard
- S. Gilbert
- Alan Bennett
- Dorothy Parker
- Samuel Johnson
- H. L. Mencken
- Evelyn Waugh
- E. Y. Harburg
- Benjamin Disraeli
- Mark Twain
- Sam Goldwyn
- Howard Teichmann George S. Kaufman
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- Neil Simon
- John Betjeman
- Gore Vidal
- Groucho Marx
- Woody Allen
- A. P. Herbert
- Hilaire Belloc
- Stephen Leacock
- Max Beerbohm
- Nigel Rees Cassell
- Peter Ustinov
- C. Sellar
- John Mortimer
- Channon
- Spike Milligan
- Fran Lebowitz
- Alice
- Mrs Patrick Campbell
- G. K. Chesterton
- Harold Macmillan
- Robert Benchley
- Lorenz Hart
- Frank Loesser
- Bill Bryson
- Stephen Sondheim
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Dick Vosburgh
- Oliver St John Gogarty
- Joseph Heller
- Laurence J. Peter
- Kenneth Tynan
- Laurence Sterne
Setting & Locations edit
- England
- New Yorker
- America
- London
- Hollywood
- Paris
- Wales
- France
- Scotland
- Spain
- Australia
- Britain
- Wellington
- Heaven
- Canada
- Europe
- Dublin
- Mens Sana
- Russia
- Road
- United States
- Opera
- China
- California
- Cambridge
- Oxford
- Germany
- Irving Berlin
- Rebecca West
- Rome
- Switzerland
- India
- Norway
- Benjamin Franklin
- Limerick
- Rye
- Washington
- Massachusetts
- Edinburgh
- Ireland
- Texas
- Italy
- Florida
First Edition edit
Original Language: German
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Country: Canada
Publication Date: 2002
ISBN: 0198606664
Page Count: 544
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Country: Canada
Publication Date: 2002
ISBN: 0198606664
Page Count: 544
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 082.0207
Subjects edit
- Books › Reference › Dictionaries & Thesauruses › Foreign Language › Irish
- Books › Reference › Dictionaries & Thesauruses › Foreign Language › Welsh
- Books › Literature & Fiction › History & Criticism › Criticism & Theory
- Books › Reference › Quotations
- Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature
- Books › Entertainment › Humor
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