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Messing about in quotes : a little Oxford dictionary of humorous quotations / edited by Gyles Brandreth.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Quotations, English.
- Wit and humor.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 374 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- This new collection brings together a handpicked selection of the funniest quotations presented by writer, broadcaster and wit, Gyles Brandreth. It offers witty, wise and sometimes wicked words on subjects ranging from Art to Bores and from Tennis to Wine.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Halftitle page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Foreword
- List of Subjects
- Quotations
- Academic Life
- Acting
- Actors
- Advertising
- Advice
- Ageing
- Ambition
- America
- Anger and Argument
- Animals and Birds
- Apology and Excuses
- Appearance
- Architecture
- Argument
- The Aristocracy
- The Armed Forces
- Art
- Audiences
- Australia
- Autobiography
- Awards and Honours
- Baseball
- Beauty
- Betting and Gambling
- The Bible
- Biography
- Birds
- Birth and Pregnancy
- The Body
- Books
- Bores
- Boxing
- The British
- Bureaucracy
- Business
- Canada
- Catchphrases
- Cats and Dogs
- Censorship
- Certainty and Doubt
- Challenges
- Champagne
- Character
- Children
- Choice
- Christmas
- The Cinema
- Cities
- Class
- The Clergy
- Colours
- Comebacks
- Comedy Routines and Catchphrases
- Computers and the Internet
- Conversation
- Cookery
- Countries and Peoples
- The Country
- Cricket
- Crime and Punishment
- Critics and Criticism
- Dance
- Dating
- Death
- Debt
- Definitions
- Democracy
- Depression
- Description
- Despair
- Diaries
- Dictionaries
- Diets
- Diplomacy
- Discontent
- Divorce
- Dogs
- Doubt
- Dreams
- Dress
- Drink
- Driving
- Drugs
- Drunkenness and Hangovers
- Eating
- Economics
- Education
- Enemies
- England
- Epitaphs
- Examinations
- Excuses
- Exercise
- Faces
- Failure
- Fame
- The Family
- Family Life
- Fashion
- Feminism
- Film Producers and Directors
- Film Stars
- Fishing
- Flattery
- Flying
- Food
- Foolishness
- Football
- France
- Friends
- Funerals
- The Future
- Gambling
- Games
- Gardens
- The Generation Gap
- Gifts
- God
- Golf
- Gossip
- Government
- Hair
- Handwriting
- Hangovers
- Happiness
- Headlines
- Health
- Heroes
- History
- Holidays
- Hollywood.
- Honours
- Hope and Despair
- Hospitality
- Housework
- The Human Race
- Humour
- Husbands
- Hypocrisy
- Ideas
- Idleness
- Ignorance
- Insults
- Intelligence and Intellectuals
- The Internet
- Ireland and the Irish
- Jewellery
- Journalism
- Judges
- Kissing
- Language
- Languages
- Last Words
- The Law
- Lawyers
- Letters
- Libraries
- Lies
- Life and its Challenges
- Lifestyle
- Literature
- Love
- Management
- Manners
- Marriage
- Medicine
- Memory
- Men
- Men and Women
- Mental Health
- Middle Age
- The Mind
- Mistakes and Misfortunes
- Modern Life
- Money
- Morality
- Mothers
- Movies
- Murder
- Music
- Musicians
- Names
- Nature and the Country
- Newspapers
- Office Life
- Old Age
- Opera
- Optimism and Pessimism
- The Paranormal
- Parents
- Parliament
- Parties and Hospitality
- Past, Present, and Future
- People and Personalities
- Peoples
- Personalities
- Pessimism
- Philosophy
- Poetry
- Poets
- Political Parties
- Politicians
- Politics
- Poverty
- Power
- Praise and Flattery
- Pregnancy
- Prejudice
- Present
- Presidents
- Prime Ministers
- Progress
- Publishing
- Punishment
- Puns
- Reading
- Relationships
- Religion
- Restaurants
- Retirement
- Royalty
- Satisfaction and Discontent
- Science
- Scotland
- Secrecy
- Self-Knowledge and Self-Deception
- Sex
- Sickness and Health
- Singing
- Sleep and Dreams
- Snobbery
- Society and Social Life
- Songs and Singing
- Speeches
- Sports and Games
- Statistics
- Success
- Taxes
- Technology
- Telegrams
- Television
- Tennis
- The Theatre
- Time
- Towns and Cities
- Transport
- Travel
- Trust and Treachery
- Truth
- Unintended Humour
- The Universe
- Virtue and Vice
- Wales
- War
- Wealth
- The Weather
- Weddings
- Wine
- Wit and Wordplay
- Wives.
- Women and Woman's Role
- Wordplay
- Words
- Work
- Writers
- Writing
- Youth.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-257488-4
- OCLC:
- 1109410717
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