The Portable Curmudgeon

Various

Penguin, Oct 1, 1992 - Humor - 320 pages

More than 1,000 outrageously irreverent quotations, anecdotes, and interviews on a vast array of subjects, from an illustrious list of world class grouches.  

“If you can’t say anything good about someone, sit right here by me.”—Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Contents

• INTRODUCTION: 1
• WORLDCLASS CURMUDGEONS: 7
• MENCKEN: 21
• QUOTES ON B: 30
• JOHN SIMON: 37
• SIMON ON ASSORTED ACTRESSES: 47
• CALVIN TRILLIN: 76
• A FLAGON OF FIELDS: 96
• GEORGE S KAUFMAN: 106
• KARL KRAUS ON THE LIFE OF A MISANTHROPE: 148
• QUOTES ON M: 189
• GROUCHO MARX: 201
• DOROTHY PARKER: 227
• FRAN LEBOWITZ: 239
• QUOTES ON S: 246
• MIKE ROYKO: 261
• QUOTES ON T: 267
• QUOTES ON U: 273
• QUOTES ON W: 282
• QUOTES ON Y: 292

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Portable Curmudgeon
• Author: Various
• Editor: Jon Winokur
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Penguin, 1992
• ISBN: 0452266688, 9780452266681
• Length: 320 pages
• Subjects: Humor / Form / Jokes & Riddles; Language Arts & Disciplines / Literacy; Reference / Quotations