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Synopsis
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
jokesters and wordsmiths, add that extra something to a speech or presentation, or just enjoy a good laugh.
'If God had wanted us to bend over, He would have put diamonds on the floor.' Joan Rivers on Health
'It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.' Mae West on Humour
'Don't get mad, get everything.' Ivana Trump on Marriage
'They misunderestimated me.' George W. Bush on Self-Knowledge
'If it's shiny, I buy it.' Graham Norton on Shopping
'Whales get killed only when they spout.' Denis Thatcher on Speeches
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Review
Some may search quotation compilations for wisdom or inspiration, but most crack these reference tomes looking for a laugh. Ned Sherrin has therefore done the world a favor by culling the witticisms and snide remarks from the vast quotation libraries, creating a volume completely dedicated to the funny remark. It's superbly browsable, but as the nearly 5,000 quotations are grouped by more than 100 themes, it's also a reference with practical applications. For a quip on consumerism, George Orwell comes through with, "Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket." Dean Martin opines about liquor: "You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on." Ronald Knox defines a baby as "a loud noise on one end and no sense of responsibility on the other," and for politics, Art Buchwald says of Richard Nixon, "I worship the quicksand he walks in." It's an irresistible dictionary. --Stephanie Gold
About the Author
Ned Sherrin CBE is presenter of BBC Radio 4's Loose Ends. Producer and director of the ground-breaking 1960s satire TV show That Was the Week that Was, and producer of a number of films, including Up Pompeii (1971), he has also written extensively for stage and screen. He has directed many
theatre productions such as Side by Side by Sondheim (London 1976 and New York 1977) and Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell (1989). He has compiled a number of anthologies, including Cutting Edge (Dent, 1984), Theatrical Anecdotes (Virgin, 1991), Ned Sherrin in his Anecdotage (Virgin, 1993), and I Wish I'd
Said That (OUP, 2004, 2/e 2006). He has also written a novel, Scratch an Actor (Sinclair Stevenson, 1995).
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0199234973
- ISBN 13 9780199234974
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages560
- EditorSherrin Ned
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