Sparkling Wit

Sparkling Wit

by Des Mac Hale (Author)

Synopsis

"Sparkling Wit" is the third volume in Des MacHale's best-selling "Wit" series, the finest collection of humorous remarks ever published. In this magnificent compendium of short, sharp quips, the wonderful Des MacHale - lifetime collector of funny remarks and devastating repartee - has organized his material by theme: from medicine and doctors to media and films, sports, politics, love and marriage, sex, food, education and many other subjects. As well as brilliant quotes from classic humorists such as Oscar Wilde and Woody Allen, we have Noel Coward, Winston Churchill, Lenny Bruce, Rita Rudner, Groucho Marx, W.C. Fields, Spike Milligan and hundreds more. On marriage: "I was married by a judge, but should have asked for a jury." - Groucho Marx. On places: "I went to Naples to see Vesuvius and do you know what? The bloody fools had let it go out." - Spike Milligan.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Edition: 01
Publisher: Prion Books Ltd
Published: 07 Apr 2008

ISBN 10: 1853756474
ISBN 13: 9781853756474

Media Reviews
Wit... unlike most books of humorous quotations, is actually funny - The Independent
Author Bio
Des MacHale is Associate Professor of Mathematics at University College, Cork, and the author of thirty humour books. He has been collecting witty remarks for over 25 years and the Wit series is a monument to his devotion - and to his great sense of humour. A regular delegate at conferences the world over, he lives in Cork, Ireland.