By: Colin Jarman Publisher: McGraw-Hill Average Rating: Binding: Hardcover Label: McGraw-Hill Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 352 Publication Date: September 01, 1993
Wonderful, I can use these quotes! I bought this book to have something to read while waiting in line or sitting in the doctor's waiting room. The idea was that it was something I could just pick up and put down quickly. It may not have been such a good idea though because I end up laughing out loud. Then I seem to have a ready come back for the next person I talk to and sometimes that is not such a good idea. Anyway I have enjoyed this book very much and will keep it close for when I need a snappy come back.
seen it all before if you need a general reference, this is ok. for the collector of quips, jokes and insults this has all appeared before. so getting this depends on your goals. if you are collector you probably have all this material in other quote books.
Nothing but entertainment If you're looking for a good laugh, you've come to the right book. Poisonous Quotes have many critisisms for almost everything in this world. Not to mention when it comes from famous authors, presidents, or thinkers.
Whether you're sharing this with someone or using a classic retort, this book is perfect for your needs of insults and hilarious laughs.
Hilarious and sobering, intermittently The verbal back-stabbing in this book is absolutely hilarious. For example:
On Oliver Goldsmith- "Poor fellow! He hardly knew an ass from a mule, nor a turkey from a goose but when he saw it on the table." --Richard Cumberland
On Whitman- "Leaves of Grass-To call it poetry in any sense, would be mere abuse of language." -William Allingham
"Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you want to hear."
"The U.S. brags about its political system, but the president says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else during midterm, and something else when he leaves."
"Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid."
"Elections are held to delude the populace into thinking they are participating in government."
Curmudgeon's Delight Editor Colin Jarman has compiled thousands of entertaining insults in "The Guinness Book of Poisonous Quotes"' 337 pages. The pithy put-downs are arranged by subject into sixteen chapters. Among the book's most entertaining chapters are those on Literature, Film, The Media, and Politics. Many chapters include gloriously mean-spirited quotes directed at particular individuals as well as venomous comments on the subject in general. "Poisonous Quotes" is an equal opportunity offender. Persons of all beliefs, tastes, and political persuasions are skewered indiscriminately. There is a very useful index in the back of the book where quotes can be located by the name of the person quoted or the person disparaged. This little volume makes a nice gift for yourself or your favorite curmudgeon.
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