The Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations

2. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-19-860920-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 544 Seiten, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 196 mm

Reihe: Oxford Paperback Reference

With 5,000 humorous quotations, from Mae West and Oscar Wilde to Ben Elton and Ian Hislop

* The previous edition in OPR has sold in excess of 59,000 copies

* Second edition now in attractive pocket-size as part of the market-leading Oxford Paperback Reference series

* Around 30 new themes, including Autobiography, Awards and Prizes, Baseball, Cookery, Dogs, Drugs, Parties, Presidents, Prime Ministers, Smoking, and Tennis

* Quotations are fully sourced and where helpful have notes explaining context

DESCRIPTION:

Dazzlingly entertaining, this new edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations contains over 5,000 quotations hand-picked by the writer and broadcaster Ned Sherrin. Containing a wide coverage of themes, including forty brand new ones such as Autobiography, Awards and Prizes, Parties, Presidents, Smoking, and Tennis, there is something for everyone on every subject imaginable.

From sharp one-liners to witty quips, there are quotations from classic humorists such as Mae West, Oscar Wilde, and Groucho Marx, to today's well known comedians and wits including Dick Vosburgh, Maureen Lipman, Tracey Ullman, Ben Elton, and Ian Hislop. There are of course quotations from famous luminaries from walks of life other than comedy, from Samuel Johnson to Tennessee Williams, and Albert Einstein to the Duke of Wellington.

With details of where each quotation comes from, who said it, where and when, an author index allowing you at a glance to establish who said what, and a detailed keyword index, this is not just an ideal reference tool but also an invaluable and classic collection.

'I have a rare intolerance to herbs which means I can only drink fermented liquids, such as gin'

Julie Walters

'They say the definition of ambivalence is watching your mother-in-law drive over a cliff in your new Cadillac'

David Mamet

'It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-level art, twisted imagination and a chainsaw'

Damien Hirst

Zielgruppe

General readers, writers, comedians, students of English literature or of comedy, speech-writers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sherrin, Ned

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprechwissenschaft, Rhetorik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Textlinguistik, Diskursanalyse, Stilistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Über Autor(innen)

NED SHERRIN, Broadcaster and writer