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

by Unknown

Drake, Dr., mot by, [36]
"Draw it mild," [219]
Drawing on wood, [7]
Dress, Vigo on, [222]
Drinking, reasons for, [229]
Dudley, Lord, Castlereagh on, [34]; mot by, [241]
Duenna, the, quoted, [37]
Dumas fils, quoted, [87]
Dust and disease, [78]
"Dust of an earthy to-day, the," [261]
Duty, Clough on, [6]
Dying boy, the, [251]
E.
Early rising, Saxe on, [122];
Hood on, [195]
Eater, on a small, [226]
Edinburgh, Hannay on, [116]
Eliot, George, quoted, [6], et seq.
Ellenborough, Lord, mot by, [84]
Emerson, R. W., quoted, [47]
Endymion, Lord Beaconsfield's, [80], et seq.
English Epigrams, quoted, [10], et seq.
---- language, the, [32], [60]
"Entirely within their province," [244]
Epigram in Distich, quoted, [85]
Episcopal office, Sydney Smith on, [192]
Equality, on, [45]
Eugene Aram, quoted, [152]
Evans, Anne, quoted, [49], et seq.
Evening dress, on ladies', [174]
---- newspapers, [241]
"Every-day young man, an," [263]
Eye-glass, on the, [164]
F.
Fable for critics, a, quoted, [178]
False love's quirk, [230]
Fanshawe, Catherine M., quoted, [256]
Fashion, Lytton on, [18]
Feeding a cold, [42]
Felix Holt, quoted, [26]
Felons and their "innocent enjoyment," [241]
Festus, quoted, [26]
Fiddler, on a bad, [3]
Fielding, Henry, quoted, [56]
Fields, J. T., quoted, [14], et seq.
Fifty years of my life, quoted, [32], et seq.
Fine lady, a, Pope on, [42]
"First men of the century," [185]
Fitzgerald, Edward, quoted, [262]
Flattery, Vauvenargues on, [95]
Fly-leaves, quoted, [15], et seq.
Fools, Hazlitt on, [143]
Foote, mots by, [211], et seq.
"Forever," [142]
Fortune, on, [251]
Forty year, [197]
"Forty years long," [156]
"Found it advisable," [57]
"Four by honours," [33]
Franklin, Mark Twain on, [178]
Fraser, Professor, quoted, [247]
Free-thinking, [113]
"Free to confess," [47]
Freeman, Mr., on, [242]
----, Thomas, quoted, [196]
"Friend, go thy way," [155]
Friends and ripe fruit, [79]
----, Hazlitt on, [106]
—— in Council, quoted, [13], et seq.
----, Old, Selden on, [11]
French, the, Harness on, [38]
---- and English, [210]
Froude and Kingsley, [111]
Fuller, Francis, quoted, [173]
Funny man, a, [30]
G.
Galla, Haryngton on, [225]
"Gardener's rule, this," [248]
Garnett, Richard, quoted, [60], et seq.
Gay, John, quoted, [240]
Genus, [111]
"Georgium Any-sidus," [99]
German language, the, [237]
"Gift of the gab," [74]
Gilbert, W. S., quoted, [14], et seq.
Gilfil's love story, quoted, [41]
Gillon, Joseph, mot by, [141]
Good little girls, [115]
"Good not the word," [55]
Good people, Locker on, [204]
Grapes and gripes, on, [155]
Gratitude, popular, [189]
Graves, Richard, quoted, [225]
Greville, Charles, quoted, [129]
Gronow's Recollections, quoted, [10], et seq.
Guesses at Truth, quoted, [5], et seq.
H.
"Halidame, by thy," [257]
Hamilton, Sir John, mot by, [28]
Hannay, James, quoted, [23], et seq.
Happy Thoughts, quoted, [88], et seq.
Harness, William, mot by, [38]
Harrison, W. H., quoted, [38], et seq.
Harte, Bret, quoted, [8], et seq.
Haryngton, Sir John, quoted, [225]
Hay, John, quoted, [13], et seq.
Haydon, B. R., quoted, [4], et seq.

Hayward, Abraham, quoted, [3], et seq.
Hazlitt, William, quoted, [15], et seq.
Heath, Robert, quoted, [201]
"Hegel's modest formula," [53]
Heine, Heinrich, quoted, [126], et seq.
Helps, Sir Arthur, quoted, [13], et seq.
Heptalogia, the, quoted, [250]
"Heureux plafond," [85]
Hicks, epigrams by, [2], et seq.
High Life Below Stairs, quoted, [37]
Hill, Aaron, quoted, [205]
H.M.S. Pinafore, quoted, [56]
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, quoted, [24], et seq.
Holland, Lord, epigram by, [51]
"Home they brought," [200]
Hood, Thomas, quoted, [3], et seq.;
anecdotes of, [155], et seq.
Hook, Theodore, mots by, [2], et seq.
Horace at Athens, quoted, [32], et seq.
—— in London, quoted, [34]
Horse and Foot, quoted, [36]
House of Commons, on, [160]
"How doth the little crocodile," [118]
Hugman, R., quoted, [92]
Hugo, Victor, Heine on, [151]
Humility, Selden on, [48]
Hunt, Leigh, quoted, [228]
Hunting of the Snark, the, quoted, [22], et seq.
Husband, an intemperate, [65]
----, the desire of a, [177]
"Hyam to Moses," [19]
Hyperion, quoted, [117]
Hypocrite, a, [148]
I.
"I and non-I," [246]
"I loiter down," [162]
"I make the butter fly," [32]
Idylls and Epigrams, quoted, [60], et seq.
Ignorance, blessed, [201]
----, Felix Holt on, [199]
Immorality, present day, [92]
Impositions of mankind, [263]
Incapable person, on an, [252]
Ingoldsby Lyrics, quoted, [12], et seq.
Insolence, [12]
Intentions, good, [91]
Irving, Washington, mot by, [4]
J.
Jabberwock, The, [220]
Janet's Repentance, quoted, [96]
Jeaffreson, J. C., quoted, [85]
Jekyll, mot by, [26]
Jenkins, Mrs., quoted, [171]
Jenner, lines on, [6]
Jerdan, William, quoted, [135]
Jerrold, Douglas, mot by, [14]
"John P. Robinson, he," [30]
Johnson, Dr., quoted, [50]
"Juliet was a fool," [53]
"Jure mariti," [57]
Juxtaposition, Clough on, [113]
K.
Kean, B. Smith and, [9]
"Keep all you have," [17]
Kemble, Fanny, quoted, [1], et seq.
Kenelm Chillingly, quoted, [39]
Kenny, mot by, [156]
"Kill him where he is," [147]
King Arthur, quoted, [17]
Kingsley and Froude, [111]
Knowles, Sheridan, anecdotes of, [9], et seq.
L.
Ladies in Parliament, quoted, [13], et seq.
Ladies' accomplishments, on, [132]
Lady of Lyons, the, quoted, [130]
Lafayette, Heine on, [227]
Lake poets, the, [130]
Lamb, Charles, mots by, [22], et seq.
Landor, Walter Savage, quoted, [64], et seq.
Lang, Andrew, quoted, [20], et seq.
La Rochefoucauld, quoted, [20], et seq.
Las Alforgas, quoted, [160]
Latest Decalogue, the, [218]
Latter-Day Lyrics, quoted, [101]
Laughter, Byron on, [96]
"Lays of now-a-days," [67]
Leigh, H. S., quoted, [44],et seq.
Leland, C. G., quoted, [86], et seq.
Letters to Julia, quoted, [39]
Lettuce and conversation, [169]
Life described, [203]
Lindsay, Lady Charlotte, mots by, [70], et seq.
Lingendes, Jean de, quoted, [151]
Literary Gazette, the, quoted, [97]
"Literature suited to desolate islands", [178]
"Little Billee," quoted, [217]
"Little knowledge, a," [95]
"Livy was Tacitus," [122]
Locker, Frederick, quoted, [8], et seq.
Lockhart, J. G., quoted, [141]
London, Morris on, [4]
—— Lyrics, quoted, [8], et seq.
Longfellow, quoted, [117]

"Look to settlements," [145]
Lothair, quoted, [6], et seq.
Lot's wife, Hicks on, [2]
Love and marriage, [31], [99], [159], [168]
---- and wisdom, [174]
----, Chamfort on, [55]
----, Corporal Bunting on, [152]
----, first and second, [195]
----, first, Bernal on, [112]
—— for Love, quoted, [77]
---- -letters, [158]
"—— levels all," [239]
---- -making, Balzac on, [4]
----, manifestations of, [127]
---- song, by H. Smith, [18]
"Lovely woman, lump of folly," [184]
"Love's but a dance," [27]
Lowell, J. R., quoted, [30], et seq.
Lucilius, quoted, [208]
Luck, good and bad, [150]
"Luke-warm," [117]
Luttrell, Henry, mots by, [23], et seq.;
quoted, [39]
Lying and good breeding, [77]
Lyra Urbanica, quoted, [4], et seq.
Lytton, Lord, quoted, [8], et seq.
M.
"Macadamnable," [254]
Macaulay, Lord, quoted, [2], et seq.
MacCulloch, mot by, [219]
Mackay, Charles, quoted, [68]
Macmillan's Magazine, quoted, [33], et seq.
Macready, W. C., quoted, [75]
Magnanimity, Hazlitt on, [15]
"Maidens of the mart," [19]
Mallock, W. H., quoted, [46], et seq.
Man of business, the, [75]
—— of Taste, the, quoted, [48]
Man's end, [30]
Margaret Percival, quoted, [15]
Marie-Louise, [227]
Marriage, Shirley Brooks on, [55];
Mrs. Steele on, [58];
Selden on, [71], [95];
Chamfort on, [79]
Martial, in London, [169];
quoted, [221]
Matrimony, Heine on, [171]
Matter, the laws of, [46]
Maximes, Chamfort's, quoted, [13], et seq.
Men, George Eliot on, [249]
Men's nature, Buxton on, [27]
Mendelssohn, anecdote of, [133]
Meredith, George, quoted, [31]
Merit, how treated, [28]
Merry Wives of Windsor, the, [186]
Middlemarch, quoted, [21], et seq.
Middleton, Lord, anecdote of, [172]
Mill on the Floss, the, quoted, [17], et seq.
Mind and Matter, Neaves on, [140]
Minorities, the rights of, [208]
Mistura Curiosa, quoted, [147], et seq.
Mitford, Miss, quoted, [67], et seq.
"Mixture as before, the," [244]
Modern Love, quoted, [31]
Money, quoted, [60]
----, Clough on, [163]
Monk Lewis, anecdote of, [54]
Montrond, mots by, [168], et seq.
Moore, Thomas, quoted, [9], et seq.
Morality, H. Smith on, [51]
Mormons, on the, [197]
Morris, Charles, quoted, [4], et seq.
"Most music-hall," [243]
Mothers-in-law, [146], [247]
Musa Burschicosa, quoted, [45], et seq.
"My Lord," [183]
My Summer in a Garden, quoted, [47], et seq.
N.
Narrow-souled people, [264]
Neaves, Lord, quoted, [8], et seq.
Neilson, Miss, on, [67]
"Never read," [89]
Newell, R. H., quoted, [26], et seq.
Newgate Windows, on, [229]
New Paul and Virginia, quoted, [46], et seq.
—— Republic, the, quoted, [92], et seq.
Newspapers, Lord Beaconsfield on, [152]
Nice, on the word, [229]
North, Lord, mot by, [67]
Northern lights, on, [58]
Notes of thought, quoted, [27], et seq.
"Nothing is, and nothing's not," [53]
"—— new," [4]
"—— particular on my mind," [40]
Novel, A Nutshell, [119]
----, a sensation, described, [93]
November, Planché on, [203]
Number One, Lytton on, [50]
O.
O'Connell, Morgan John, mot by, [70]
Old Bachelor, the, quoted, [178]
Old Times and Distant Places, quoted, [34]
Oliphant, Lawrence, quoted. [35], et seq.
Once a Week, quoted, [9], et seq.
Onion, the, [47]
"—— is strength," [105]
Orange, the, [156]
Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, quoted, [26], et seq.

Original sin, [231]
Outram, George, quoted, [179]
Overbury, Sir Thomas, quoted, [104]
Owl, the, quoted, [64]
P.
Palladas, quoted, [59], et seq.
Pall Mall Gazette, the, quoted, [53], et seq.
Palmerston, Lord, mot by, [85]
Paradise of Birds, the, quoted, [153]
"Parcus deorum cultor," [73]
Parr, Dr., Basil Montague on, [129]
Pascal, quoted, [240]
Patchwork, quoted, [45], et seq.
Patience, quoted, [88], et seq.
Patrons' promises, Lord Holland on, [51]
Paul Clifford, quoted, [8]
Peel, Sir Robert, mot by, [111]
Pelham, quoted, [18]
Pennell, H. Cholmondeley, quoted, [16], et seq.
Pensées, Pascal's, quoted, [240]
Permissive Bill, the, [203]
"Personal" and "real," [32]
Phantasmagoria, quoted, [85], et seq.
Phœbe, to, [187]
Phryne, Donne on, [48]
Physiologie du Mariage, quoted, [4], et seq.
Piccadilly, quoted, [35], et seq.
"Pickle your lordship!" [247]
Picnic party, a, [15], [86]
Pictures, seeing, [151]
Piety and cooking, [112]
Pirates of Penzance, the, quoted, [58]
"Plain leg of mutton," [55]
Planché, J. R., quoted, [9], et seq.
Pleasing, the art of, [31]
Pleasure of not going to church, the, [254]
Pleasures of the people, the, [234]
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, [1], 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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Obvious typographical and punctuation errors have been corrected but no attempt at consistency of spelling or punctuation has been made, as the entire text consists of direct quotations from other sources.