The Jest Book / The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings - Mark Lemon

Nameless Man, A, [260]
Napoleon's Statue at Boulogne, [128]
Nat Lee and Sir Roger L'Estrange, [43]
National Prejudice, [247]
Native Wit, [35]
Natural, [300]
Natural Antipathy, [228]
Natural Grief, [186]
Natural Transmutation, [60]
Nature and Art, [273]
Naval Oratory, [117]
Neat Quotation, A, [65]
Neat Suggestion, A, [315]
Neck or Nothing, [24]
Neighborly Politeness, [296]
New Disguise, A, [141]
New Idea, A, [296]
New Reading, A, [201], [271]
New Relationship, [3], [317]
New Scholar, A, [98]
New Sign, A, [154]
New Sport, A, [104]
New view, A, [255]
New Way to Pay Old Debts, [29]
New Way with Attorneys, A, [352]
Nice Distinction, A, [95], [112]
Nice Language, [120]
Nicknames, [265]
Night and Morning, [170]
Nil Nisi, &c., [166]
No Harm Done, [2]
No Intrusion, [323]
No Joke, [253]
No Judge, [173]
No Matter what Color, [242]
No Music in his Soul, [329]
No Pride, [171]
No Redeeming Virtue, [309]
No Sacrifice, [261]
Noise for Nothing, A, [167]
Nominal Rhymes, [83]
Non Compos [260]
Non Sequitur, [57]
"None so Blind," &c., [58]
North, Lord, Asleep, [161]
North's, Lord, Drollery, [241]
Nosce te Ipsum, [243]
Not at all Anxious, [324]
Not at Home, [207]
Not Finding Himself, [347]
Not giving Himself "Airs", [305]
Not Importunate, [236]
Not Improbable, [308]
Not Insured Against Fire, [186]
Not Necessary, [228]
Not Polite, [119]
Not Quite Correct, [252]
Not Right, [20]
Not Room for a Neighbor, [339]
Not Sick Enough for That, [273]
Not so Bad for a King, [58]
Not so "Daft" as Reputed, [321]
Not so Easy, [106]
Not to be Believed, [342]
Not to be Bought, [68]
Not to be Done Brown, [276]
Not to be Tempted, [218]
Not to be Trifled with, [87]
Not True, [154]
Not v. Nott, [35]
Nothing but Hebrew, [266]
Nothing but the "Bill", [12]
Nothing Personal, [190]
Nothing Surprising, [339]
Nothing to Boast of, [313]
Nothing to Laugh at, [199]
Notice to Quit, [125]
Notions of Happiness, [181]
Novel Complaint, A, [8]
Novel Idea, A, [112]
Novel Offence, [45]
Novelty, A, [66]

Objectionable Process, A, [328]
Ocular, [307]
Odd Bird, An, [102]
Odd Comparison, An, [40]
Odd Family, An, [99]
Odd Fellow, An, [68]
Odd Foresight, [166]
Odd Housekeeping, [225]
Odd Humor, [324]
Odd Notion, An, [277]
Odd Occurrence, An, [242]
Odd Question, An, [186]
Odd Reason, [213]
"Off with his Head", [337]
Offensive Preference, [325]
Old Adage Refuted, An, [314]
Old Age, [162]
Old Friends, [311]
Old Joke, An, [112]
Old Stories over Again, [52]
Old Times, [128]
Ominous, Very!, [213]
On the Right Side, [40]
On the Spot, [327]
One Bite at a Cherry, [150]
One Fault, [312]
"One for his Nob", [9]
One Good Turn Deserves Another, [7]
One Head Better than a Dozen, [126]
One-Sided Joke, A, [353]
One-Spur Horseman, The, [255]
One Thing at a Time, [210]
One Thing Wanting, The, [7]
Only a Ninepin, [317]
Only Enough for One, [200]
Only for Life, [304]
Open Confession, [289]
Openly, [326]
Opposite Tempers, [281]
Orators, The, [185]
Oratory, [252]
Order for Two, An, [82]
Order! Order!, [123]
Origin of the term Grog, [268]
Original Attraction, An, [79]
Orthography, [277]
Our English Love of Dinners, [176]
"Our Landlady", [246]
"Out, Brief Candle", [33]
Out of Spirits, [302]
Outline, An, [304]
Outline of an Ambassador, [272]
Outward Appearance, [28]
Over-wise, [101]
Oxford and Cambridge Actors, [132]

Paddy's Logic, [54]
Painful Examination, A, [325]
Painted Charms, [327]
Painting, [162], [166]
Painting and Medicine, [221]
Par Nobile Fratrum, [148]
Pardonable Mistake, A, [6]
Parliamentary Case, [272]
Parliamentary Reprimand, [184]
Participation in a Practical Joke, [282]
Partnership Dissolved, [88]
Passing the Bottle, [11]
Pat Reply, A, [161]
Patience, [305]
Patrick Henry, [175]
Paying in Kind, [130], [257]
Pence Table, [108]
Perfect Bore, A, [246]
Perfect Discontent, [131]
Personalities of Garrick and Quin, [231]
Pert, [164]
Pertinent Enquiry, [208]
Pertinent Question, A, [310], [347]
Phenomenon Accounted for, A, [63]
Philanthropist, The, [165]
Philip, Earl, of Stanhope, [359]
Philosophical Reason, A, [255]
Phonetic Joke, A, [144]
Picking Pockets, [321]
Pickpocketing, [97]
Piece de Resistance, [123]
Piece of Plate, A, [113]
Pig-headed, [56]
Pigs and the Silver Spoon, The, [292]
Pill Gratis, A, [133]
Pink of Politeness, The, [36]
Pious Minister, A, [131]
Place Wanted, A, [67]
Placebo, A, [67]
Plain Enough, [267]
Plain Language, [149]
Plain Speaking, [249]
Play upon Words, A, [256]
Player, or Lord, [320]
Playing on a Word, [33]
Pleasant, [252]
Pleasant Deserts, [72]
Pleasant for a Father, [354]
Pleasant Invitation, [8]
Pleasant Message, A, [363]
Pleasant Partner, A, [275]
Plumper, A, [325]
Plural Number, The, [249]
Poet Foiled, The, [190]
Poetical shape, A, [64]
Poets to certain Critics, The, [225]
Point, A, [106]
Point Needing to be Settled, A, [349]
Polite Rebuke, A, [208]
Polite Scholar, The, [85]
Political Corruption, [80]
Political Logic, [348]
Political Sinecure, [240]
Poor Curate, The, [296]
Poor Laugh, A, [349]
Poor Law, [343]
Poor Substitute, A, [301]
Pope's Last Illness, [281]
Popping the Question, [25]
Porson v. Dr. Jowett, [214]
Porson's Visit to the Continent, [27]
Portmanteau v. Trunk, [127]
Portrait Capitally Executed, A, [8]
Poser, A, [44], [203], [226], [267], [287]
Poser by Lord Ellenborough, A, [170]
Possible Censors, [365]
Post-Mortem, [69]
Pot Valiant, [225]
Powder without Ball, [281]
Practical Retort, [248]
Precautionary, [330]
Preferable Way, A, [334]
Preferment, [361]
Prefix, A, [283]
Pressing Reason, A, [232]
Pretty, [308]
Pretty Metaphor, A, [26]
Pretty Picture, A, [38]
Pretty Reply, A, [358]
Previous Engagement, A, [366]
Priest's Orders, [336]
Prime's Preservative, [320]
Primogeniture, [22]
Prince of Orange and Judge Jefferies, The, [25]
Principle of Governments, The, [314]
Priority, [236]
Probability, A, [147]
Problem for Total Abstainers, A, [352]
Profession and Practice, [331]
Professional, [47]
Professional Aim, A, [318]
Professional Candor, [329]
Professional Companions, [330]
Professional Recognition, [351]
Profitable Juggling, [97]
Promise to Pay, A, [139]
Proof Impression, [23]
Proof Positive, [320]
Proper Answer, A, [206]
Proper Distinction, [174]
Proper Name, A, [299]
Proper Retort, A, [116]
Prophecy, A, [74]
Prosiness, [363]
Proud Heart, A, [191]
Proverb Reversed, A, [186]
Provident Boy, A, [62]
Proving their Metal, [16]
Pulling up a Poet, [338]
Punctuation, [139]
Pungent Pinch, A, [336]
"Puppies never See till they are Nine Days Old", [192]
Pure Folks, [144]
Purser, The, [28]
Putting a Stop to Pilgrim's Progress, [90]

Q.E.D., [79]
Quaint Epitaph, [364]
Qualifying for Bail, [33]
Quantum Suff, [212]
Quakerly Objection, A, [80]
Queer Expression, A, [282]
Queer Partners, [172]
Query Answered, A, [62]
Query for Mr. Babbage, A, [209]
Question and Answer, [60]
Question Answered, [312]
Question for the Peerage, A, [167]
Question of Descent, A, [354]
Question of Time, [133]
Quick Lie, A, [346]
Quid Pro Quo, [86], [216], [267], [269]
Quiet Dose, A, [226]
Quiet Theft, [151]
Quin and Charles I., [316]
Quin and the Parson, [227]
Quin's Saying, [50]
Quin's Soliloquy on Seeing the embalmed body of Duke Humphrey, at St. Alban's, [38]
Quite Aground, [199]
Quite at Ease, [271]
Quite Natural, [53]
Quite Perfection, [24]
Quite Poetical, [219]
Quite Professional, [290]
Quite True, [85]

Railroad Engineer, The, [155]
Rake's Economy, A, [164]
Rare Virtue, [43]
Rather A-curate, [262]
Rather Ethereal, [278]
Rather Ferocious, [303]
Rather Hard, [133]
Rather Saucy, [161]
Rather the Worst Half, [257]
Ready-made Wood Pavement, [174]
Ready Reckoner, A, [70], [163], [259]
Ready Reply, A, [73]
Reason, A, [311]
Reason for being too Late, A, [356]
Reason for Belief, A, [326]
Reason for Going to Church, [70]
Reason for not Moving, A, [338]
Reason for Polygamy, A, [342]
Reason for Running Away, [248]
Reason for Thick Ankles, [293]
Reason Why, The, [94], [231]
Reasonable Demand, A, [149]
Reasonable Excuse, A, [193]
Reasonable Preference, A, [323]
Reasonable Refusal, A, [241]
Reasonable Request, [102]
Reasons for Drinking, [242]
Rebel Lords, The, [196]
Rebuke, A, [251]
Reciprocal Action, [355]
Recruiting Sergeant and Countryman, [86]
Reflection, A, [96]
Reformation, [176]
Relations of Mankind, [173]
Remarkable Echo, A, [309]
Reproof, [115]
Republic of Learning, The, [107]
Republic of Letters, The, [324]
Reputation, [181]
Resignation, [144]
Resting Herself, [334]
Retort Cutting, The, [31]
Reverse, A, [214]
Reverse Joke, A, [221]
Reverse of Circumstances, [10]
Richmond Hoax, The, [262]
Right Organ, The, [242]
Rigid Impartiality, [359]
Ringing the Changes, [91]
Rising Son, The, [1]
Riskful Adventure, A, [331]
Rivals, The, [110]
Rogers—Poet and Skipper, [176]
Rowing in the Same Boat, [128]
Rowland for an Oliver, A, [163]
Royal Favor, [63]
Royal Jest, A, [366]
Royal Muff, A, [164]
Royal Pun, [145]
Rub at a Rascal, A, [61]
Rule of Practice, A, [354]
Ruling Passion after Death, The, [51]
Ruling Passion Strong in Death, The, [200], [350]
Ruling Passion, The, [129], [218], [367]
Rum and Water, [141]
Runaway Knock, A, [195]
Running Accounts, [291]
Running no Risk, [339]

Saddle on the Right Horse, The, [18]
Safe Appeal, A, [108]
Safe Side, The, [292]
Sage Advice, [28]
Sage Simile, A, [61]
Sailor's Wedding, [215]
St. Peter a Bachelor, [286]
Salad, [221]
Salic Law, The, [361]
Salisbury Cathedral Spire, [147]
Sanitary Air, A, [218]
Satisfaction, [108]
Satisfactory Explanation, A, [340]
Satisfactory Reason, A, [115]
Satisfactory Total, [105]
Saucy Answer, A, [363]
Save us from our Friends, [157]
Saving Time, [247]
Scandalous, [25]
Scold's Vocabulary, The, [40]
Scotch Caution, [119]
Scotch Medium, [130]
Scotch Penetration, [133]
Scotch Simplicity, [42]
Scotch Understanding, [66]
Scotch "Wut", [168], [316]
Scotchman and Highwaymen, [291]
Scott, Sir Walter, and Constable, [288]
Scott's, Sir Walter, Parritch-pan, [283]
Sealing an Oath, [65]
Seasonable Joke, A, [89], [273]
Season-ings, The, [207]
Secret Discovered, A, [357]
Seeing a Coronation, [127]
Seeing not Believing, [270]
Self-Applause, [314]
Self-Conceit, [235]
Self-Condemnation, [265], [325]
Self-Interest, [367]
Self-Knowledge, [76]
Selwyn, George, [47]
Sensibility, [304]
Sent Home Free, [192]
Sentence of Death, [34]
Sermons in Stones, [341]
Servants, [267]
Setting him Up to Knock him Down, [178]
Setting Up and Sitting Down, [256]
Settled Point, A, [256]
Settler, A, [149]
Severe, [261]
Severe Rebuke, [285]
Shakespeare Illustrated, [129]
Shakespearian Grog, [350]
Shaking Hands, [53]
Sharp Boy, [261]
Sharp Brush, A, [320]
Sharp, if not Pleasant, [245]
Sheepish Compliment, A, [44]
Sheridan and Burke, [336]
Sheridan Convivial, [268]
Short and Sharp, [134]
Short Commons, [160]
Short Creed, A, [218]
Short Journey, [170], [278]
Short Measure, [168]
Short-Sighted, [254]
Short Stories, [79]
Should not Silence Give Consent, [236]
Shuffling Answer, A, [327]
Sign of being Cracked, [68]
Significant Difference, A, [332]
Silent Appreciation, [332]
Silk Gown, A, [93]
Simile, A, [344]
Simple Division, [19]
Simplicity of the Learned Porson, [82]
Sims, Dr., [211]
Sinecure, A, [182]
"Sinking" the Well, [297]
Slack Payment, [175]
Sleeping at Church, [268]
Sleeping Round, [106]
Slight Difference, A, [111], [238]
Slight Eruption, A, [114]
Small Glass, A, [92]
Small Inheritance, A, [3]
Small Joke, A, [343]
Small Talk, [303]
Small Wit, [232]
Smart One-pounder, A, [143]
Smart Reply, [220]
Smoking an M.P., [114]
Smoothing It Down, [321]
Snoring, [159]
Snuff-box, The, [273]
Snug Lying, [205]
Soft, Very!, [76]
Soldiers' Wives, [253]
Solomon's Temple, [202]
Something for Dr. Darwin, [1]
Something Lacking, [204]
Something Like an Insult, [80]
Something Sharp, [344]
Something to be Grateful for, [350]
Something to be Proud of, [293]
Something to Pocket, [301]
Soporific, A, [195], [310]
Sought and Found, [309]
Sound and Fury, [9]
Sound Conclusion, A, [57]
Sound Sleeper, [17]
Spare Man, A, [145]
Spare the Rod, [239]
Speaking Canvas, The, [307]
Speaking of Sausages, [245]
Special Pleading, [37]
Species and Specie, [189]
Specific Gravity of Folly, The, [155]
Specimen of the Laconic, [306]
Specimen of University Etiquette, [158]
Spirit and the Letter, The, [112]
Spirit of a Gambler, [270]
Spiritual and Spirituous, [5]
Spranger Barry, [146]
Sprig of Shillalah, A, [27]
Staffordshire Collieries, The, [202]
Steam-boat Racing, [150]
Sterne, [131]
Stone Blind, [71]
Stop Watch, A, [184]
Stopper, A, [70]
Stout Swimmer, A, [334]
Strange Jetsum, [133]
Strange Objection, A, [143]
Strange Vespers, [201]
Stray Shot, A, [77]
Striking Notice, A, [9]
Striking Point, A, [102]
Striking Reproof, [38]
Subtraction and Addition, [14]
Sudden Change, A, [90]
Sudden Freedom, [345]
Suggestion, [49]
Suggestive Pair of Grays, A, [197]
Suggestive Present, A, [140]
Suggestive Question, A, [148]
Suggestive Repudiation, [323]
Suited to his Subject, [35]
Summary Decision, [194]
Sun in his Eye, The, [346]
Superfluous Scraper, A, [356]
Superiority of Machinery, The, [306]
Sure Take, A, [277]
Swearing the Peace, [217]
Sweeps, [234]
Swift, Dean, and King William, [117]
Sword and the Scabbard, The, [108]
Sydney Smith, [104]
Sydney Smith Soporific, [223]
Syllabic Difference, A, [297]
Symbol, A, [7]

Take Warning!, [315]
Taking a Hint, [217]
Taking his Measure, [121]
Tall and Short, [40]
Taste of Marriage, A, [165]
Tavern Dinner, A, [264]
Tell it not in England, [329]
Telling One's Age, [225]
Temperance Cruets, [284]
Tender Suggestion, A, [345]
Terrible Possibility, A, [343]
"The Mixture as Before", [22]
Theatrical Mistakes, [98]
Theatrical Purgations, [314]
Theatrical Wit, [124]
Thelwall, Mr., [209]
"Thereby Hangs," &c., [167]
Things by their Right Names, [210]
Three Causes, [7]
Three Degrees of Comparison, [205]
Three Ends to a Rope, [231]
Three Touchstones, [15]
"Throw Physic to the Dogs!", [233]
Thurlow and Pitt, [121]
Ticklish Opening, A, [324]
Tierney's, Mr., Humor, [277]
Tillotson, [280]
Time Out of Joint, The, [187]
Time Works Wonders, [112]
Timely Aid, [243]
Timely Flattery, [316]
Timely Reproof, A, [115]
Timidity of Beauty, The, [143]
To the Coming Man, [313]
Too Civil, [55]
Too Civil by Half, [246]
Too Clever, [250]
Too Fast, [220]
Too Good, [233]
Too Grateful, [224]
Too Liberal, [260]
Too Many Cooks, [11]
Too Much and Too Little, [244]
Too Much at Once, [364]
Too Much of a Bad Thing, [165]
Too Cold to Change, [65]
Top and Bottom, [140]
Tory Liberality, [56]
Touching, [109]
Trade against Land, [156]
Tragedy MS., [43]
Transformation Scene, A, [201]
Transporting Subject, A, [221]
Transposing a Compliment, [41]
Travellers See Strange Things, [317]
Trophies, [210]
True and False, [251]
True Courtier, A, [43]
True Criticism, [267]
True Dignity, [261]
True Evidence, [156]
True Joke, A, [60]
True of Both, [287]
True Philosophy, [288]
True Politeness, [164]
True to the Letter, [287]
True Wit, [123]
Trump Card, A, [13]
Truth and Fiction, [240]
Truth and Rhyme, [137]
Truth at Last, [133]
Truth by Accident, The, [216]
Truth for the Ladies, A, [100]
Truth not Always to be Spoken, [88]
Truth not to be Spoken at All Times, [78]
Truth v. Politeness, [255]
Trying to the Temper, [258]
Twice Ruined, [79]
Two Carriages, [275]
Two Cures for Ague, [353]
Two Make a Pair, [159]
Two of a Trade, [77]
Two Sides to a Speech, [90]
Two Smiths, The, [28]
Twofold Illustration, [42]
Typographical Transfer, A, [332]
Typographical Wit, [260]

Ugly Dog, An, [48]
Ugly Trades, [304]
Unanswerable Argument, An, [299]
Uncivil Warning, [351]
Unconscious Insult, An, [317]
Unconscious Postscript, An, [206]
Unequal Arrangement, An, [355]
Unexpected Cannonade, An, [340]
Unfortunate Lover, An, [181]
Union is Strength, [51]
Union of Opposites, [319]
Unkind, [117]
Unknown Tongue, [38]
Unlikely Result, An, [348]
Unpoetical Reply, [120]
Unreasonable, [94]
Unre-hearsed Effect, An, [65]
Unremitting Kindness, [100]
Untaxed Luxury, An, [319]
Unwelcome Agreement, [158]
Up and Down, [301]
Up in the World, [9]
Upright Man, An, [87]
Use is Second Nature, [196]
Useful Ally, A, [90]
Utilitarian Inquiry, A, [328]

Vails To Servants, [85]
Vain Search, A, [96]
Vain Threat, A, [343]
Valuable Beaver, A, [301]
Valuable Discovery, [90]
Value of Applause, [171]
Value of Nothing, [241]
Vast Domain, [21]
Vera Cannie, [243]
Verse and Worse, [118]
Verses Written on a Window in the Highlands of Scotland, [15]
Very Appropriate, [287]
Very Clear, [46]
Very Easy, [303]
Very Evident, [213]
Very Like Each Other, [270]
Very Likely, [249], [312]
Very Pointed, [22]
Very Pretty, [102]
Very Serious, [130]
Very Shocking, if True, [254]
Very True, [173], [286]
Vice Versâ, [190]
Visible Darkness, [10]
Visible Proof, [82]
Visibly Losing, [293]
Voluminous Speaker, A, [148]
Vox et Præterea Nihil, [147]
Vulgar Arguments, [122]
Vulgarity, [362]

Walking Stick, A, [326]
Walpoliana, [107], [111], [119]
Warm Friendships, [98]
Warm Man, A, [348]
Warning to Ladies, [54]
Waste of Time, [42]
Waste Powder, [18]
Way of the World, [75]
Way of Using Books, [175]
Weak Woman, A, [11]
Wearing Away, [347]
Well-bred Horse, [9]
Well Matched, [6]
Well Said, [268]
Well Turned, [346]
Wellington, Duke of, and the Aurist, [87]
Wellington Surprised, [250]
Welsh Wig-ging, A, [26]
Wet and Dry, [141]
What Everybody Does, [294]
What is an Archdeacon?, [295]
What's a Hat without a Head?, [285]
What's Going On?, [159]
What's in a Name?, [279]
What's in a Syllable?, [151]
What's my Thought Like?, [305]
Wheel of Fortune, The, [195]
Where it came from, [316]
Where is the Audience?, [183]
Whig and Tory, [67]
Whist, [244]
Whist-Playing, [229]
Whitbread's Entire, [359]
White Hands, [287]
White Teeth, [275]
Who's the Fool?, [132]
Who's to Blame?, [136]
Whose?, [192]
Why are Women Beardless?, [208]
Why Master of the House?, [330]
Wide-awake Minister, A, [347]
Wide Difference, A, [345]
"Wide, Wide Sea," The, [315]
Wife at Forty, A, [45]
Wignell, the Actor, [72]
Wilberforce, Miss, [298]
Wilkes and Liberty, [161]
Wilkes and a Liberty, [143]
Wilkes's Ready Reply, [224]
Wilkes's Tergiversation, [114]
Wilkie's Simplicity, [91]
Will and Away, A, [259]
Will and the Way, [193]
Will, The, [104]
Windy Minister, A, [259]
Winner at Cards, A, [303]
Winning a Loss, [160]
Wise Decision, A, [348]
Wise Fool, A, [198]
Wise Precaution, [13]
Wise Son who knew his own Father, A, [6]
Wit and Quackery, [95]
Wit Defined, [95]
Wits Agreeing, [354]
Witty at his own Expense, [365]
Witty Coward, [236]
Witty Proposition, A, [348]
Witty Thanksgiving, [338]
Wolfe, General, [167]
Woman's Promises, A, [62]
Women, [229]
Wonderful Cure, A, [179]
Wonderful Sight, A, [258]
Wonderful Unanimity, [331]
Wonderful Woman, A, [5]
Wooden Joke, A, [314]
Woodman, A, [63]
Woolsack, The, [232]
Word in Season, A, [340]
Word to the Wise, A, [135]
Words that Burn, [11]
Worst of all Crimes, The, [63]
Worst of Two Evils, The, [269]
Worth the Money, [35]
Worthy of Credit, [129]
"Write me Down an Ass", [135]
Writing for the Stage, [234]
Writing Treason, [230]
Written Character, A, [6]
Wrong Leg, The, [48]