Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes

by Clifton Fadiman

Kneller, 2

  Leighton, 1

  Raphael, 1

  Rossetti, 3

  Ruskin, 2

  Sargent, J. S., 2–3

  Taylor, P., 1

  Whistler, 16

  criticism/critics, drama

  Alexander, G. C., 1

  Archer, 1

  Bankhead, 3, 10

  Barnes, 3

  Behan, 3

  Bernhardt, 9

  Blumenthal, 1

  Broun, 1

  Chekhov, 2

  Coward, 4

  Gilbert, W. S., 8

  Sandburg, 1

  Shaw, 3

  Taylor, L., 1

  Victoria, 2

  Wilde, 6

  criticism/critics, literary

  Arnold, 3

  Bahr, 1

  Bridger, 2

  Browning, R., 1

  Eliot, T. S., 3

  Emerson, 4

  Frost, 3

  Gilbert, W. S., 2

  Goldwyn, 5

  Jerrold, 1

  Johnson, S., 19

  Maugham, 1

  Pinter, 1

  Pope, Alexander, 1

  Porson, 4

  Rivarol, 1

  Tennyson, 3

  Voltaire, 5, 7

  Wilde, 10

  Woollcott, 5

  criticism/critics, movie

  Berra, 8

  Hepburn, 1

  Mankiewicz, 1

  Marx, G., 8

  Mature, 1–2

  Tarantino, 1

  Thurber, 7

  criticism/critics, music

  Bülow, 4

  Cherubini, 1, 3

  Enesco, 1

  Fitzgerald, E., 1

  Klemperer, 3

  Liberace, 1

  Martinelli, 2

  Meyerbeer, 1

  Rachmaninoff, 1

  Reger, 2

  Rossini, 6

  Saint-Saëns, 1

  Satie, 2

  Shaw, 2, 9

  Stravinsky, 9, 13

  Truman, 4

  Wellington, 10

  criticism, political

  Acheson, 2

  crops

  Carlyle, 5

  cross-dressing

  Sharp, 1

  crossword puzzles

  Knox, R., 2

  crowds

  Barnum, 1

  Berra, 2

  cures

  Charles II, 2

  Galen, 1

  Gershwin, G., 2

  James, H., 6

  Menelik II, 2

  Pembroke, 1

  Waterton, 1

  Yeats, 2

  curses

  Ferdinand IV, 1

  cursing. See swearing

  customs officials

  Slezak, 2

  Wilde, 2

  Wright, R., 1

  cynicism

  Allen, F., 1

  dampness

  George V, 8

  dancers. See also ballet; choreographers

  Arnould, 1

  Astaire, 1, 3

  Taylor, P., 1

  dancing

  Sandwich, 2

  Travolta, 1

  darkness

  Wells, 3

  Darwinism

  Huxley, T. H., 1

  deadlines

  Parker, D., 1

  deadlock

  Jowett, 2

  deafness

  Bell, A. G., 2

  Chateaubriand, 2

  Churchill, W., 36

  Edison, T. A., 8

  Holmes, O. W., Sr., 4

  McCoy, 2

  Victoria, 12

  death. See also deathbeds; dying; last words

  Adams, J., 4

  Aeschylus, 1

  Anaxagoras, 1

  Armstrong, L., 6

  Auber, 3

  Auden, 8

  Barnum, 4

  Benchley, 12

  Bennett, A., 2

  Brahe, 1

  Caesar, 7

  Chatterton, 1

  Cohan, 4

  Coolidge, 25

  Disraeli, 12

  Donne, 2

  Duncan, 2

  Elizabeth I, 6

  Empedocles, 1

  Evans, A., 1

  Ferdinand IV, 1

  Fontenelle, 4

  Frohman, 1

  Gilbert, W. S., 1

  Goethe, 2

  Green, J. H., 1

  Greene, 3

  Gwenn, 1

  Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 2

  Holmes, O. W., Jr., 8

  Houdini, 3

  James, H., 7

  Labouchere, 3

  Li Bo, 1

  Lincoln, A., 35

  Louis XIV, 10

  McCormick, 1

  Mayer, 3

  Montmorency, 1

  Mozart, 8

  Parker, D., 17

  Philip III, 1

  Rizzuto, 1

  Russell, B., 4

  Saroyan, 1

  Schwarzenberg, 3

  Segovia, 1

  Selwyn, 1

  Sobhuza II, 1

  Stalin, 2

  Stevens, 3

  Strachey, 5

  Sumner, 1

  Tennyson, 10

  Thales, 5

  Thomas, D., 2–3

  Twain, 13

  Wilde, 18

  Wilkes, 3

  death announcements

  Napoleon I, 14

  deathbeds. See also death; dying; last words

  Andersen, 4

  Anthony, S. B., 3

  Beethoven, 9

  Butler, S., 5

  Caroline of Ansbach, 2

  Elizabeth I, 7

  Greeley, 8

  Victoria, 17

  death warrants

  Nero, 3

  debates

  Huxley, T. H., 1

  Nixon, 5

  debts. See also bills; creditors; loans

  Addison, 3

  Augustus, 5

  Bean, 1

  Bing, 6

  Briand, 1

  Fox, C. J., 1

  Gleason, 1

  Halbe, 1

  Hayworth, 2

  Herford, 1

  James, J., 1

  Liliencron, 2

  Marx, C., 1

  Orsay, 1

  Rabelais, 1

  Scott, 5

  Sheridan, R. B., 5–8

  Steele, 1

  deception

  Columbus, 1

  Crockford, 1

  Eliot, C. W., 1

  Shi Huangdi, 1

  decision making

  Mauch, 1

  Declaration of Independence

  Adams, J., 4

  Franklin, 2–3

  Hancock, 1

  Harrison, B. (“Signer”), 1

  Hopkinson, F. (“Signer”), 1

  Jefferson, T., 5

  décolletage. See also breasts

  Arnould, 3

  Charles, Prince, 1

  Depew, 2

  Doherty, 1

  John XXIII, 1

  dedications

  Armstrong, L., 2

  Fitzgerald, F. S., 2

  Mascagni, 2

  Scarron, 1

  defeat

  Buller, 1

  Francis II, 1

  Goldwater, 2

  Napoleon I, 12

  Pitt, 3

  Stevenson, A. E., 4

  Taft, W. H., 5

  Wellington, 11

  defensiveness

  O’Hara, J., 2

  Stein, 4, 8

  delicacy

  Palmerston, 2

  Ross, 8

  delusion of grandeur

  Churchill, W., 20

  delusions

  George IV, 1–2

  demises

  Sandwich, 3

  democracy

  Franklin, 12

  Jefferson, T., 7, 9

  Lycurgus, 1

  demonstrations

  Reagan, R., 2

  dentures

  Auden, 5–6

  desertion

  Frederick I
I, 5

  Napoleon I, 11

  detectives

  Hammett, 1–2

  determination. See also singlemindedness

  Archimedes, 3

  Arne, 1

  Avery, 1

  Flaherty, 1

  Perot, 1

  Pétain, 1

  Robert I, 1

  Truth, 1

  diagnoses. See also cures; doctors

  Abernethy, 3, 5

  Bell, J., 2

  Brahms, 8

  Christie, 2

  Fordyce, 1

  Green, J. H., 1

  Hartleben, 1

  MacMahon, 1

  Morse, 2

  Pope, Alexander, 4

  diamonds

  Baker, J., 1

  Taylor, E., 1

  diaries

  Goldwyn, 12

  Kaufman, 12

  dictators

  Stalin, 1

  dictionaries

  Aymé, 1

  Twain, 15

  West, 3

  dieting

  Roosevelt, F. D., 4

  digressions

  Quayle, 2

  dining habits

  Crockett, 1

  dinners

  Balzac, 8

  Barrie, 8

  Bush, G., 3

  Byron, 2

  Clive, 1

  Coolidge, 18

  Eliot, T. S., 7

  Ford, G. R., 4

  Foster, 1

  Hitchcock, 1

  Necker, 1

  Orsay, 2

  Paderewski, 4

  Petronius, 1

  Pliny, 1

  Sarasate, 1

  Susann, 2

  Travers, 1

  Trench, 1

  Trollope, A., 2

  West, 4

  diplomas

  Webster, D., 4

  diplomats/diplomacy

  Adee, 1

  Austin, W. R., 1–2

  Bismarck, 4

  Bryan, 1

  Carol II, 1

  Castro, 1–2

  Churchill, W., 27

  de Gaulle, 6

  Elizabeth II, 7

  Elizabeth the Queen Mother, 3

  Elliot, 1

  Franklin, 10

  Franks, 1

  George-Brown, 1

  Harriman, 2

  Keppel, 1

  Labouchere, 1

  Laird, 1

  Lincoln, A., 16

  Roosevelt, F. D., 7

  Schwarzenberg, 1

  Thorndike, 3

  directions

  James, H., 3

  directors. See movie directors and producers

  dirtiness

  Webster, D., 4

  Whistler, 13

  disablement

  Nelson, 1–2

  disappearance

  Gilbert, W. S., 9

  disappointment

  Cocteau, 2

  Ford, G. R., 4

  Irving, W., 1

  Lincoln, A., 9

  O’Neill, 4

  disasters

  Kennedy, E., 3

  disciples

  Diogenes, 5

  Eddy, 1

  Jefferson, T., 12

  discipline

  Onassis, J., 5

  discoveries. See also inventions; scientists

  Archimedes, 1

  Fermi, 1

  Fleming, A., 1

  Galvani, 1

  Kekulé von Stradonitz, 1

  Newton, 1, 3, 6

  Salk, 1

  discretion

  Baldwin, 2

  Schwab, 1

  Seward, 2

  Shaftesbury, 1

  diseases. See illness and specific illnesses

  disguises

  Alfred, 1

  Edward VIII, 1

  dislike

  Lloyd, Weber, 1

  dismissals

  Greeley, 5

  Picasso, 19

  Robinson, E. A., 3

  Talmadge, 1

  Wharton, 2

  disrespectfulness

  Cyrus II, 1

  diversions

  Quayle, 1

  divorce

  Burr, 2

  Eleanor of Aquitaine, 1

  Luce, C. B., 1

  Thorndike, 2

  doctors. See also cures; diagnoses

  Abernethy, 1, 3–6

  Adenauer, 3

  Alexander III, 5

  Asquith, M., 4

  Bell, J., 1–2

  Benchley, 3

  Berra, 9

  Bismarck, 8

  Brahms, 8

  Farquhar, 1

  Fordyce, 1

  Frederick II, 11

  Galen, 1

  Garth, 1

  George III, 7

  Gibbon, 2

  Grant, U. S., 13

  Green, J. H., 1

  Hartleben, 1

  Hepburn, 1

  Holmes, O. W., Sr., 1

  Lister, 1

  Mayo, 1

  Millikan, 1

  Morse, 2

  Otto, 1

  Reagan, R., 10

  Schwartz, D., 2

  Shaw, 24

  Tennyson, 7

  Virchow, 3

  dogs

  Campbell, Mrs. P., 4

  Coward, 5

  Green, H., 2

  Nash, 1

  Newton, 2

  Nixon, 1

  Shatner, 1

  Wolfe, 2

  domesticity

  Ford, B., 1

  Don Quixote

  Cervantes Saavedra, 1

  donations

  Greeley, 7

  Kennedy, J. F., 8

  Morgan, J. P., Sr., 7

  Reagan, R., 1

  Untermeyer, 1

  double standards

  Nixon, 10

  double-talk

  Nixon, 3

  dowries

  Scarron, 2

  dramatists. See playwrights

  dreams

  Archer, 1

  Coleridge, 2

  Constantine, 1

  Howe, E., 1

  Johnson, W., 1

  Kekulé von Stradonitz, 1

  Lincoln, A., 30, 35

  Mantle, 4

  Russell, B., 3

  dress

  Clemenceau, 7

  Marx, G., 5

  Poe, 1

  drinking. See also drunkenness; liquor

  Auden, 5

  Bankhead, 2

  Barrymore, J., 1

  Benchley, 5

  Fields, 3–4

  Frederick Augustus I, 1

  George IV, 1

  George VI, 2

  Grant, U. S., 13

  Hemingway, 8

  Johnson, S., 23

  Lardner, 1–2

  Lincoln, A., 10

  Magruder, 1

  Marquis, 1

  Marshall, J., 1

  Parker, D., 17

  Porson, 3

  Riley, 2

  Schwartz, D., 1

  Tennyson, 2

  Whistler, 7

  drivers

  Alvanley, 1–2

  Huxley, T. H., 2

  driving

  Davis, M., 1

  Dayan, 1

  Ramsey, 1

  drowning

  Korda, 3

  Shelley, P. B., 2

  drug addiction

  Bankhead, 1

  drunkenness. See also drinking; liquor

  Addison, 2

  Alexander, G. C., 1

  Alma-Tadema, 1

  Benchley, 4

  Booth, J. B., 4

  Carson, 3

  Chamberlain, A., 2

  Churchill, W., 30

  Cooper, W., 1

  Cionysius, II, 1

  Fergusson, 1

  Fields, 2

  Fitzgerald, F. S., 3

  Fordyce, 1

  Fosdick, 1

  George-Brown, 1

  Pembroke, 1

  Philip II, 1

  Sullivan, A. S., 1

  Thomas, D., 1

  Verlaine, 1


  Walpole, R., 1

  Ward, 2

  duels

  Alvanley, 1

  Clay, C. M., 1

  Clemenceau, 3–4

  Courteline, 1

  Dumas père, 5

  Fox, C. J., 2

  Howarth, 1

  Jackson, A., 1, 5

  Mirabeau, 1

  Napoleon I, 13

  Putnam, 1

  Sainte-Beuve, 1

  Scholl, 1

  Shelburne, 1

  Virchow, 1

  duty

  Victoria, 1

  William II, 2

  dying. See also death; deathbeds; last words

  Allen, E., 4

  Allen, W., 2

  Cannon, 1

  Croll, 1

  Franco, 1

  Franklin, 14

  Frederick II, 11

  Frederick William I, 2–3

  Gainsborough, 2

  Galois, 1

  Goethe, 1

  Hammerstein, 3

  Keats, 2

  Palmerston, 4

  Pope, Alexander, 4

  Rabelais, 2

  Rachmaninoff, 2

  Toulouse-Lautrec, 1

  earthquakes

  Barrymore, J., 1

  Caruso, 1

  Hideyoshi, 1

  Rockefeller, N. A., 1

  eavesdropping

  Baruch, 1

  Beaumont, 1

  eccentricity/eccentrics

  Bankhead, 5

  Banks, 1

  Beckford, 1

  Beecham, Sir T., 1

  Booth, J. B., 3

  Buckland, 1

  Byron, 2

  Dali, 1–3, 6

  Dudley, 1

  Eisenhower, 5

  Feynman, 1

  Horowitz, 2

  Jarry, 1–4

  Mytton, 1

  Nerval, 1

  Rossetti, 1

  Schopenhauer, 1

  Selwyn, 1

  Waterton, 1

  Wilde, 13

  eclipses

  Columbus, 3

  Pericles, 1

  Thales, 1

  economists

  Keynes, 2

  Truman, 6

  economizing

  Tree, 6

  economy

  Kennedy, J. F., 12

  editing/editors

  Allen, F., 4

  Churchill, W., 23

  Dickens, 4

  Eliot, T. S., 6

  Franklin, 2

  Glyn, 1

  Goethe, 4

  Hemingway, 3, 7

  Johnson, S., 7

  O’Neill, 1

  Ross, 9, 11

  education

  Ali, 6

  Berg, 1

  Cohen, 1

  Ford, H., 6

  Franklin, 7

  Fuller, M. W., 1

  Henson, 1

  Plato, 1

  Rachel, 3

  Samuelson, 1

  Thomas, M. C., 1

  efficiency

  Alexander, H., 1

  Ford, H., 5

  egalitarianism

  Emerson, 6

  Pliny, 1

  Tennyson, 1

  ego. See conceit; self-importance

  Eiffel Tower

  Morris, W., 1

  elections

  Addams, 1

  Abernethy, 2

  Baylor, 1

  Belloc, 1

  Buckley, 1

  Coppée, 1

  Dewey, 1

  Eastwood, 3

  Fox, C. J., 5

  Fuseli, 1

  Gallup, 1

  Goldwater, 2

  Harrison, B. (President), 1

  Hindenburg, 1

  Kennedy, J. F., 3, 6–7, 9

  Lincoln, A., 9

  Long, 1

  Reagan, N., 1

  Sherman, W. H., 3

  Stern, 1

  Stevenson, A. E., 4–5

  Taft, W. H., 5

  Thomas, N., 1, 2–3

  Van Buren, 1

  elegies

  Auden, 8

  elephants

  Barnum, 2

  embargoes

  Kennedy, J. F., 15

  embarrassment

  Channing, 1

  Coolidge, 11