Sir Winston Churchill was once asked about his position on whisky. Here`s how he answered: "If you mean whisky, the devil`s brew, the poison scourge, the bloody monster that...
On his first day in office, as President Abraham Lincoln entered to give his inaugural address, one man stood up. He was a rich aristocrat. He said, "Mr. Lincoln...
Hollywood actor Christopher Reeve made a reply one night to host James Lipton on the Bravo TV program "Inside the Actor`s Studio". When Reeve was asked what it was liked to have acted with Katharine Hepburn...
In the 1920s, Dorothy Parker was establishing a reputation as a witty woman with a sharp tongue (the actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell called her, "My pretty, pretty cobra...
Some of history`s greatest replies come from people we don`t usually associate with great wit...
One of the few pontiffs in history with a rich sense of humor, Pope John XXIII once reported to an interviewer that important problems would frequently come to mind...
After the opening performance of Arms and the Man in London in 1894, playwright George Bernard Shaw joined the actors on stage to acknowledge a rousing, appreciative ovation...
Alfred Hitchcock`s 1944 film "Lifeboat," a drama about eight survivors of a freighter sunk by a German U-Boat, was one of the most popular films of the year...
After lunching at the Algonquin Hotel, Robert Benchley walked through the lobby, out the front door, and said to the uniformed man on the sidewalk, "My good man...
When a man at a party once told Robert Benchley that the drink he was holding in his hand was slow poison...