Book description
A glittering display of wit and wisdom from some of the most masterful and irreverent cynics on record, the Cassell Dictionary of Cynical Quotations is the essential corrective for anyone who has ever had an optimistic thought. It contains thousands of wryly amusing quotations on every conceivable aspect of life, arranged thematically. Some of the people who are quoted are: Aesop, Simone de Beauvoir, Noel Coward, Bette Davis and Albert Einstein.
"Anyone who says he isn’t going to resign, four times, definitely will."
"Golf is a good walk spoiled."
"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."
"A judge is a lawyer who once knew a politician."
Jonathon Green is a writer, lexicographer and broadcaster, specializing in dictionaries of language and quotations. In all, he has written more than 30 books, including Chasing the Sun: Dictionary-Makers and the Dictionaries They Made, The Cassell Dictionary of Slang and Days in the Life, a much-acclaimed oral history of the Sixties.