Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes

by Clifton Fadiman

  Wilson, W., 3

  press, the. See also journalists

  Russell, B., 4

  pride

  Eisenhower, 3

  Michelangelo, 1

  Plato, 3

  Tecumseh, 1

  prime time

  Reagan, R., 6

  priorities

  Stein, 11

  prison

  Asoka, 1

  Curley, 1

  Rose, 5

  Skelton, 1

  prisoners

  Bader, 1

  de Valera, 3

  Frederick II, 2, 4

  Gordon, 1

  Maria Fëdorovna, 1

  Richard I, 1

  Voltaire, 1

  Wilde, 15

  prisoners of war

  Perot, 1

  Stuart, 1

  privacy

  Barrie, 7

  Carlton, 1

  Emerson, 3, 8

  Steinbeck, 1

  Stimson, 1

  prizes. See also Academy Awards; awards; honors; Nobel Prize; Pulitzer Prize

  Greene, 3

  probability

  Steinbrenner, 1

  problems

  Lloyd George, 3

  procrastination

  Augustine, 1

  productivity

  Dionysius II, 1

  professional status

  Ross, 4

  profits

  Euclid, 2

  Newton, 9

  promiscuity. See also infidelity; love affairs; mistresses; sex

  Arnould, 4

  Lenclos, 1, 4

  Musset, 1

  promises

  Anthony, M., 1

  Coppée, 1

  Reynolds, J., 1

  promotions

  Francis I, 1

  Magruder, 1

  Ross, 1

  prompters

  Rehan, 1

  pronunciation

  Bottomley, 1

  prophecy

  Agrippina, 1

  Aidan, 1

  Caesar, 4

  Caligula, 5

  Cardano, 1

  Collins, M., 1

  Constantine, 1

  Croesus, 1

  Emerson, 7

  Grey, 1

  Henry IV, 1

  Kallio, 1

  Louis XI, 1

  Newton, 6

  Wells, 2

  propositions

  Nabokov, 2

  Rachel, 1

  Susann, 5

  Thurber, 5

  propriety

  Ben-Gurion, 1

  Edward VII, 3

  Parker, D., 4

  Trollope, A., 1

  Twain, 17

  Ustinov, 1

  proselytizing

  Chesterfield, 2

  prosperity

  Hecht, 1

  prostitutes

  Barrows, 1

  Bolingbroke, 1

  Chaliapin, 1

  Freud, 1

  Guimond, 1

  Mitford, 1

  Parker, D., 6

  Perelman, 1

  Wilde, 17

  protocol

  Busby, 1

  Edward VII, 10

  Kingsale, 1

  Laird, 1

  provincialism

  Adenauer, 1

  Thoreau, 6

  proximity

  Riley, 2

  prudery

  Blume, 1

  Johnson, S., 4

  Parker, D., 11

  Sterne, 1

  Victoria, 15

  pseudonyms

  Sharp, 1

  psychiatrists

  Kaufman, 14

  Williams, Tennessee, 1

  psychoanalysis

  Gershwin, G., 2

  psychology

  Beerbohm, 2

  Galen, 1

  public appearances

  Coolidge, 19

  public image

  Gandhi, 1, 3

  Kennedy, R., 2

  publicity

  Bernhardt, 6

  O’Neill, 4

  public service

  Taft, W. H., 7

  publishers

  Balzac, 3

  Burke, 1

  Byron, 4

  Campbell, T., 1

  Churchill, W., 12

  Cocteau, 4

  Coleridge, 1

  Fielding, 1

  Greene, 2

  Hugo, 1

  Johnson, S., 3

  Kerouac, 2

  Milton, 1

  Susann, 4

  publishing

  Carnegie, 4

  Cerf, 1

  Pulitzer Prize

  Mitchell, 1

  punctuality

  Churchill, W., 4

  Lamb, Charles, 2

  Palmerston, 1

  punctuation

  Fiske, 1

  Flaubert, 2

  Maria Fëdorovna, 1

  Sheridan, R. B., 10

  punishment

  Augustus, 6

  Bottomley, 2

  Chapman, J., 1

  Chapman, J. J., 1

  Cibber, 1

  Dole, 6

  Frederick William I, 2

  Hatto, 1

  Milton, 2

  Raleigh, 5

  Russell, J., 2

  Stubbs, J., 1

  Webster, D., 3

  Xerxes, 2

  puns

  Addison, 1

  Asquith, M., 1

  Bacon, 1

  Booth, J. B., 2

  Brown, J. M., 2

  Bruce, 1

  Cardozo, 1

  Caroline of Brunswick, 2

  Chase, S. P., 1

  Choate, 5

  Clive, 1

  Coke, 1

  Dennis, 2

  Erskine, 2

  Gilbert, W. S., 1, 6–7

  Gogarty, 1

  Grote, 1

  Kelvin, 1

  Lear, 4

  Lillie, 1

  Lincoln, A., 3

  Mahaffy, 2

  Milnes, 1

  Morley, C., 1

  Nabokov, 4

  Napier, 1

  Norbury, 3

  Palmerston, 2

  Parker, D., 5–6

  Perelman, 1

  Rabelais, 2

  Riley, 1

  Rodgers, 2

  Roosevelt, F. D., 4

  Shaftesbury, 2

  Trilling, 1

  Zangwill, 1–2

  purity

  Beethoven, 7

  Quakers

  Cope, 1

  Dalton, 1

  Fox, G., 1

  Waln, 1

  qualifications

  Landers, 1

  quarrels. See arguments questions

  Bowles, P., 1

  Reagan, R., 17

  Stengel, 7

  quotations

  Adams, H., 1

  Porson, 2

  racism

  Blake, E., 1

  Disraeli, 1

  Douglass, 1

  Dumas père, 2

  Everett, 1

  Horne, 1

  Jessel, 1

  Kennedy, J. F., 14

  Lee, R. E., 5

  Louis, J., 2

  Seward, 1

  Smith, B., 1

  Truth, 1

  Virchow, 2

  radio

  Reagan, R., 1

  rain

  Sainte-Beuve, 1

  Twain, 8

  rank

  Napoleon I, 17

  Paley, 1

  rationalism

  Paine, 2

  Talleyrand, 9

  rationalists

  Pompadour, 1

  reading

  Cervantes Saavedra, 1

  Cooper, Gary, 3

  Leonard, 1

  Franklin, 7

  Stout, 1

  Truman, 10

  Walpole, R., 2

  real estate

  Astor, J. J., 2

  Hecht, 1

  realism

  Goldsmith, 1

  John, A., 1

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p; Ouida, 1

  Picasso, 6

  Renoir, 1

  Trollope, A., 2

  reality

  Fonda, H., 2

  Nicholson, 1

  reassurance

  Columbus, 1

  Davis, M., 1

  Onassis, J., 5

  Twain, 8

  rebukes

  Apelles, 2

  Madison, D., 1

  Rivarol, 1

  Stein, 1, 8

  recantations

  Cranmer, 1

  recklessness

  Caesar, 5

  recluses

  Barnes, 1–2

  recognition. See also identification; mistaken identity

  Braque, 1

  Cagney, 1

  Copland, 1

  Crawford, 3

  Drew, 1

  Ferdinand I (Bulgaria), 1

  Irving, H., 1

  Lillie, 3

  Marx, G., 6

  Michelangelo, 1

  Newman, 1

  recommendations

  Washington, 10

  reconciliations

  Byrd, 1

  Frederick II, 7

  Gainsborough, 2

  Parker, D., 4

  Sudermann, 1

  Victoria, 7

  records

  Maris, 2

  Rose, 4

  recourse

  Quisenberry, 2

  recovery

  Browning, E. B., 1

  references

  Woollcott, 2

  refusals

  Dali, 7

  Madison, D., 1

  Sherman, W. H., 3

  regulations

  Elizabeth II, 4

  rehearsals

  Barrie, 4

  Blech, 1

  Chaliapin, 2

  Coward, 1, 6

  Handel, 2, 4

  Massenet, 1

  Mozart, 6

  Parker, D., 8

  Toscanini, 1–2, 6–7, 9

  Tree, 4

  Voltaire, 2

  reigns (terms of office)

  Cicero, 2

  Elizabeth I, 6

  reincarnation

  MacLaine, 1

  Pythagoras, 1

  rejections

  Alembert, 1

  Diogenes, 7

  Dickens, 4

  Disraeli, 4

  Glyn, 1

  Harlow, 1

  Kennedy, E., 2

  Kissinger, 4

  Shaw, 1

  Wilson, E., 1

  rejoinders

  Churchill, W., 7

  relatives. See also family

  John XXIII, 2

  Johnson, L. B., 6

  Molnár, 3

  relaxation

  Eliot, T. S., 6

  relics

  Beuno, 1

  religion

  Adler, 1

  Allen, E., 1

  Ammonius, 1

  Armstrong, N., 3

  Belloc, 1

  Buñuel, 1

  Coleridge, 4

  Darrow, 3

  Davies, E., 1

  Detourbey, 1

  Diderot, 1

  Doyle, 2

  Erasmus, 1

  Fields, 5

  Gide, 1

  Henry IV, 2

  Hill, R., 1

  Hitchcock, 6

  Huxley, T. H., 1

  Jackson, T. J., 2

  Kennedy, J. F., 10

  Kinglake, 1

  Laplace, 1–2

  Melbourne, 2–3

  Montecuccoli, 1

  Paine, 2, 4

  Servetus, 1

  Shaftesbury, 1

  Smith, A. E., 1

  Talleyrand, 3, 9

  Voltaire, 14

  Warburton, 1

  Waugh, 4

  religious belief

  Talleyrand, 9

  religious conversion

  Asoka, 1

  Christina, 1

  Chwolson, 1

  Eddy, 1

  Gregory I, 1

  Henry IV, 2

  remedies

  Trollope, A., 4

  Twain, 21

  remorse

  Cromwell, 4

  remuneration

  George III, 7

  Stravinsky, 13

  renovations

  Thurber, 1

  reporters. See journalists

  reprisals

  Martin, 1

  Thalberg, 1

  Republicans

  Dole, 5

  reputation

  Arnould, 2

  Caesar, 3

  Goldwyn, 13

  Jackson, A., 1, 4

  Kreisler, 3

  Perón, 1

  Rockefeller, J. D., Jr., 1

  Rodgers, 1

  Whitman, 1

  Williams, Ted, 1

  resemblance, physical. See also appearance; mistaken identity

  Churchill, W., 25

  Twain, 19

  resignations

  Caray, 1

  Lloyd George, 6

  respect

  Barton, 2

  Burns, 3

  responsibility

  Truman, 7

  rest

  Hayes, H., 4

  Napoleon I, 3

  restaurants. See also dinners; food

  Berra, 2

  Feydeau, 2

  Garland, 1

  Lang, 1

  Pinza, 1

  restraint

  Fonda, J., 1

  résumés

  Campbell, Mrs. P., 2

  retirement

  Archer, G., 1

  Barrows, 1

  Coolidge, 23

  Garbo, 4

  Mantle, 4

  Navratilova, 1–2

  Walpole, R., 2

  Williams, Ted, 3

  retorts

  Clinton, 1

  Paine, 3

  Philip, Prince, 6

  Thurlow, 1

  Vespasian, 3

  retribution

  Divine, 2

  Feller, 1

  Quin, 1

  reunions

  Lafayette, 3

  Victoria, 17

  revenge

  Fleetwood, 1

  Hook, 1

  Ibn Saud, 1

  Michelangelo, 3

  Narváez, 1

  Nilsson, 1

  Peter I, 2

  Sedley, 1

  Toscanini, 5

  Vanderbilt, C., 1

  Voltaire, 3

  Welles, 3

  reverence

  Paderewski, 3

  reverse psychology

  Mantle, 1

  reviews

  Berra, 8

  Stravinsky, 13

  revisions

  Kissinger, 4

  Lowell, R., 3

  revocations

  Kidd, 1

  revolutionaries

  Engels, 1

  Franklin, 3, 9

  Paine, 1

  Talleyrand, 11

  Trotsky, 1

  revolutions

  Franklin, 5

  Lear, 3

  rewards

  Herman, 1

  Xerxes, 2

  Rhodes scholars

  Rhodes, 4

  ridicule

  MacLaine, 1

  riff-raff

  Kennedy, J. P., 5

  rings

  Raglan, 1

  risks

  Stevenson, A. E., 9

  rivalry

  Bankhead, 9

  Carnegie, 2

  Godowsky, 1

  Greenwood, 1

  Heifetz, 2

  Hemingway, 6

  Lehmann, 1

  Napoleon, J. C. P., 1

  Parchmann, 2

  Scott, 1

  rivals

  Apelles, 1

  Arlen, 1

  Brancusi, 1

  Callas, 3

  Charles V, 1

  Clay, H., 2

  Ford, G. R., 2

  Gibbon, 2

  Goldwyn, 7, 10

  Lincoln, A., 10

  Mayer, 2


  Merman, 1

  Meyerbeer, 2

  Nesbit, 1

  Rossini, 1

  Sheridan, R. B., 11

  Sudermann, 1

  Zeuxis, 1

  rivers

  Frederick William IV, 1

  Queensberry, 1

  Richelieu, 2

  robbers/robbery. See theft/thieves

  robots

  Reuther, 1

  roles

  Paquin, 1

  romance

  Baylis, 1

  Rome

  Nero, 2

  royalties

  James, H., 5

  Jones, J., 2

  royalty

  Albert, Prince, 3

  Alexander III, 7

  Armstrong, L., 2

  Beecham, Sir T., 6

  Bernadotte, 1

  Bismarck, 5

  Buckingham, 1

  Caroline of Ansbach, 1

  Charles, Prince, 2

  Charles Francis Joseph, 1

  Charles II, 1, 6

  Charles X, 1

  Cunninghame Graham, 1

  Disraeli, 11

  Edward VII, 2, 4–5, 8

  Edward VIII, 2–3

  Eleanor of Aquitaine, 1

  Elizabeth I, 1, 2, 7

  Elizabeth II, 2, 5, 11–12

  Elizabeth the Queen Mother, 1–2, 4–5

  Euclid, 1

  Farouk I, 1

  Ferdinand I (Austria), 1

  Ferdinand I (Bulgaria), 1

  Ferguson, 1

  Fontenelle, 1

  Francis Joseph, 1–2

  Franklin, 9

  George II, 1–2

  George IV, 3

  George V, 2, 7

  Howard, C., 1

  Kingsale, 1

  Lear, 1

  Lennon, 1

  Leopold II, 1–2

  Louis XIV, 1–2, 8

  Mansart, 1

  Marlborough, J. S. C., 1

  Mary, Queen Consort, 1–2

  Metternich, P., 1

  Napoleon, E., 1

  Oscar II, 1

  Patti, 1

  Philip, Prince, 1–4

  Philip II, 3

  Philip V, 1

  Quin, 1

  Shakespeare, 2

  Vespasian, 3

  Victoria 1, 3, 6–7, 11, 13

  William I (Prussia), 2

  Woollcott, 6

  Rubicon River

  Caesar, 4

  rudeness

  Abernethy, 1–2

  Anne, Princess, 3

  Barrie, 7

  Belloc, 2

  Bernard, 5

  Churchill, R. F. E. S., 2

  Goering, 1

  Hogan, 1

  Vespasian, 3

  Waugh, 1, 4

  Wharton, 2

  rules

  Fitzgerald, F. S., 3

  rumors

  Davis, B., 1

  Hudson, 1

  Russell, B., 4

  runners

  Nurmi, 1

  Russia

  Pushkin, 1

  Russians

  Tennyson, 6

  ruthlessness

  Kennedy, R., 1

  Napoleon I, 11

  Roosevelt, E., 2

  Sabbath, the

  Jackson, T. J., 2

  sacrifice

  Edward VII, 2

  Grassini, 1

  Louis XVI, 3

  Nelson, 1

  Oates, 1

  Sidney, 1

  sailors

  Gilbert, H., 1

  Nelson, 1

  saints

  Beuno, 1

  du Deffand, 1

  Francis of Assisi, 1

  salaries. See also fees

  Alcott, A. B., 1

  Alexander III, 3

  Anderson, 2

  Churchill, W., 8

  Coward, 1

  Dale, 1

  Doyle, 1

  Fontanne, 1

  Garbo, 1

  George III, 2

  Gershwin, G., 4

  Henry, 2

  Howells, 2

  Kennedy, J. F., 18

  Lamar, 1

  Marx, G., 1

  Rochefort, 2

  Ruth, 1, 9

  Sargent, J. S., 1

  Talleyrand, 2