The Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations
by Sherrin, NedFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1995-11-30
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary
In The Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations , noted writer and satirist Ned Sherrin has gathered nearly 5,000 quotations in a rollicking collection drawn from an international cast of humorists and pundits, ranging from Shakespeare, Jane Austen, and Oscar Wilde to Groucho Marx, Monty Python, and Roseanne. 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 Parents (P. J. O'Rourke, "Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly"), to Youth (Georges Courteline, "It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all"), Sherrin has left no turn unstoned to collect the sharpest, the wittiest, the wryest in quips, put-downs, and one-liners.
Author Biography
About the Editor:
Ned Sherrin is presenter of BBC Radio 4's Loose Ends, a weekly satirical round-up of international news. He was the producer and director of the ground-breaking television comedy show, That Was The Week That Was, and has written extensively for stage and screen.
Table of Contents
| Preface to the Second Edition | |
| Introduction | |
| How to Use the Dictionary | |
| List of Themes | |
| Main dictionary | |
| Author Index | |
| Keyword Index | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
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