Quips and Quiddities: A Quintessence of Quirks, Quaint, Quizzical, and Quotable

Part 13

Chapter 131,126 wordsPublic domain

Plunket, _mots_ by, 32, _et seq._

_Poems and Music_, quoted, 49, _et seq._

_Poetical Farrago, the_, quoted, 154

Poets' meaning, Byron on, 21

Poisoners, social, 110

"Policeman's lot, the," 209

Pommery Gréno, 193

Poole, _mot_ by, 161

Poor relations, George Eliot on, 43

Pope, Alexander, quoted, 42, _et seq._

Popular man, a, 122

Positivists, the, Collins on, 108, 138

Poverty, on, 85; the ancients on, 8

Practical man, a, 49

"Practising all night," 35

Praed, W. M., quoted, 128

Praise, La Rochefoucauld on, 20

Preaching, Baron Alderson on, 174

Preoccupied man, a, 129

Presbyterian singing, 215

Pride of talent, 73

"Priest's orders," 61

Prigs, 120

Prima donna, the, and stout, 5

Primitive man, Lang on, 20

---- tongue, the, 49

Princess-robe, the, 84

Privileged person, a, 250

"Pro conibus calidis," 68

Procter, Bryan Waller, quoted, 35

Property in England, 165

Prophecy, a mistake, 239

Prospectus, 41

_Proverbs in Porcelain_, quoted, 27, _et seq._

Public dinners, Helps on, 44

Public-house, on a, 90

_Puck on Pegasus_, quoted, 16, _et seq._

_Punch_, quoted, 228, _et seq._

Punsters, Lamb on, 246

Pygmalion, on, 5

Q.

_Question d'Argent, la_, quoted, 87

R.

Radical, on a certain, 215

---- reformer, on a, 23

Rank and trade, on, 5

Recognition, the, 183

_Recollections_, Berkeley's, quoted, 142

----, Gronow's, quoted, 10, _et seq._

----, Mackay's, quoted, 68, _et seq._

----, Planché's, quoted, 9, _et seq._

_Record of a Girlhood_, quoted, 1, _et seq._

Reece, Robert, quoted, 57, _et seq._

_Réflexions_, Deshoulières', quoted, 37

----, La Rochefoucauld's, 20, _et seq._

----, Vauvenargues', quoted, 65, _et seq._

Reliable, on the word, 170

Religion, Selden on, 176

---- of humanity, the, 242

_Reminiscences_, Boyd's, quoted, 56, _et seq._

----, Teignmouth's, 36, _et seq._

Repentance, La Rochefoucauld on, 59; Hazlitt on, 60

Retz, Cardinal de, quoted, 96

Reynolds, Hamilton, _mot_ by, 133

_Richelieu_, quoted, 76

"Rise up, cold reverend," 83

Robinson, Crabb, quoted, 24, _et seq._

Rogers, Samuel, quoted, 1, _et seq._; _mots_ by, 21, _et seq._

Romances, Byron on, 177

_Romola_, quoted, 6, _et seq._

"Rose kissed me to-day," 48

Rose, Sir George, _mots_ by, 33, _et seq._

Rossini, anecdotes of, 76, _et seq._

Routh, Dr., _mot_ by, 86

"Rum and true religion," 159

S.

"Saddest when I sing," 16

Safety in numbers, 98

Saints and sinners, 81

Salad, Mortimer Collins on, 236

Satan a blunderer, 225

Saunders and Otley, 94

Savile Clarke, H., quoted, 125, _et seq._

Sawyer, William, quoted, 65, _et seq._

Saxe, John Godfrey, quoted, 10, _et seq._

Scandal, on, 196

Scotch economy, 40

Scotch tunes, 152

Scotch weather, on, 205

_Season, the_, quoted, 19, _et seq._

Sègur, Comte de, quoted, 87

Selden, John, quoted, 11, _et seq._

Self-satisfaction, 235

Sensible men, the religion of, 146

Sermons, stolen, 258, 259

"Sermons and soda-water," 150

Sewell, Miss, quoted, 15

"Shade over, a," 226

Shakespeare, quoted, 10

Shelburne, Lord, _mot_ by, 159

Shenstone, William, quoted, 44, _et seq._

Sheridan, R. B., quoted, 37; _mot_ by, 65

"Shickspur," 37

_Shotover Papers, the_, quoted, 83, _et seq._

Sidey, J. A., quoted, 147

Sinclair, Archdeacon, quoted, 34

"Sing for the garish eye," 14

Singer, on a bad, 76

"Singing singers, the," 87

_Sketches and Characters_, quoted, 23, _et seq._

Smith, Horace, quoted, 18, _et seq._; _mot_ by, 25

----, James, _mot_ by, 213; quoted, 34, _et seq._

----, Robert, _mots_ by, 2, _et seq._

----, Sydney, _mots_ by, 1, _et seq._

Societies, Chesterfield on, 208

Society, a state of war, 231

Society, two classes in, 120

_Songs and Poems_, Planché's, quoted, 75, _et seq._

_Songs and Verses_, Neaves's, quoted, 8, _et seq._

_---- of many Seasons_, quoted, 5, _et seq._

_---- of Singularity_, quoted, 32, _et seq._

_Sorcerer, the_, quoted, 61

Southesk, Lord, quoted, 230

Speculation, George Eliot on, 52

---- and peculation, 210

"Splendid shilling, the," 260

Squinted, on one who, 207

Steele, Mrs. A. C., quoted, 5, _et seq._

Stephens, H. P., quoted, 127, _et seq._

Stuart Mill on Mind and Matter, 140

Stupid people, on, 179

Stupidity, Heine on, 159

Suckling, Sir John, quoted, 98

Sunday dismality, 123

Swift, Jonathan, quoted, 49, _et seq._

T.

_Table Talk_, Selden's, quoted, 11, _et seq._

Tailors, Overbury on, 104

"Take him for half and half," 68

Talleyrand, _mot_ by, 10

Teignmouth, Lord, quoted, 36, _et seq._

Temper, on losing, 138

"Tender ten," 53

Tennyson, Alfred, quoted, 148; anecdote of, 132

----, after, 260

Thackeray, _mots_ by, 46, _et seq._; quoted, 55

Theatrical nuisance, on a, 220

Theophilus, Rogers on, 1

Theory, a favourite, 248

Thurlow, Lord, _mot_ by, 72

"Tide of time, the," 107

Tierney, _mot_ by, 136

Time, on, 253

_Tin Trumpet, the_, quoted, 18, _et seq._

"Tommy Onslow", 46

Tom Thumb, 258

_Tom Thumb_, quoted, 56

"Too much--too much," 136

"To sniggle or to dibble," 175

"To urn or not to urn," 65

Town and country, 128

Townshend, Henry, quoted, 130

Tradition, George Eliot on, 76

Tragedies and comedies, 124

Trapp, Dr., epigram on, 154

Traveller, the, and the gorilla, 60

Travelling, on, 180

Trevelyan, G. O., quoted, 13, _et seq._

_Trial by Jury_, quoted, 43

"Trifles," on, 214

Turner, Godfrey, quoted, 20

Turnips, Mark Twain on, 19

Twain, Mark, quoted, 19, _et seq._

'Twas ever thus, 198

Tweeddale, Lady, story of, 2

_Twelfth Night_, quoted, 10

"Twinkle, twinkle, little bat," 97

Tyndall, Professor, Collins on, 192

U.

Umbrellas, on, 240

_University Magazine, the_, quoted, 38

"Upper G., my," 139

V.

Vanity, 143, 116

Vauvenargues, quoted, 65, _et seq._

_Veiled Prophet, the_, parody on, 222

Veracity, George Eliot on, 68

_Verses and Translations_, quoted, 5, _et seq._

"Vexation of spirit," 35

_Vignettes in Rhyme_, quoted, 11, _et seq._

Virtutem, in, 196

"Voice of the lobster," 42

Voltaire, quoted, 34; Charles Lamb on, 220

W.

Walpole, Horace, quoted, 2, _et seq._

Walrus and the Carpenter, the, 158

Ward, Artemus, quoted, 7, _et seq._

Warner, Charles Dudley, quoted, 47, _et seq._

Warrender, Sir George, story of, 239

Washington, George, Mark Twain on, 185

Water, Lord Neaves on, 181

Weather, the clerk of the, 249

Webbe, Egerton, quoted, 170

"Wedlock is a sober thing," 262

"Weed, the," Neaves on, 70

Welsh language, the, 238

Werther and Charlotte, 166

Whiting and the snail, the, 7

Whately, anecdotes of, 3, _et seq._

_What will he do with it?_ quoted, 89, _et seq._

"When other lips," 190

"Whims and oddities," 3, _et seq._

Whitings or shoeblacks, 256

"Why the Dickens," 16

Wife, a, 108

"Wife who preaches, a," 135

Wife's dress, a, 227

"Wife's a widdy, his," 101

"Wilcox or Gibbs?" 21

_Wit and Humour_, Brooks's, quoted, 6, _et seq._

Wit of a family, the, 257

_Within an Ace_, quoted, 171

Wives, on, 167

Woman, a, with babbies, 196

---- before marriage, 245

Woman's choice, 143

---- self-love, 163

Women and a secret, 76

---- and books, 217, 130

---- and degrees, 104

---- and fact, 41

---- and flattery, 114, 132

---- and insincerity, 163

----, and men's happiness, 126

----, and men's praise, 126

---- and revenge, 54

---- and spite, 107

---- and their lovers, 13, 77

---- and wills, 92

----, and young and old, 120

---- as unionists, 151

----, Bartle Massey on, 175

----, Congreve on, 243

---- in a garden, 247

----, management of, 39

---- matched with men, 160

----, talkativeness of, 131

----, the two passions of, 125

Women's conversation, 49

---- rights, 86

---- virtue, 135, 205

Working by the hour, 139

Working-man, the, 161

_World, the_, quoted, 76

Wraxall, Sir Nathaniel, quoted, 138

Writing-master, on a left-handed, 173

"Wus, ever wus," 78

Y.

Yates, Edmund, quoted, 106, _et seq._

_Yesterdays with authors_, quoted, 14, _et seq._

Young, Brigham, 157

----, J. C., quoted, 4, _et seq._

---- ladies of to-day, 137

---- men of to-day, 93

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