Uncover Messing About In Quotes: A Little Oxford Dictionary Of Humorous Quotations Conceived By Gyles Brandreth Released As Audio Books

a dazzling wit or enjoy a good laugh with this entertaining collection of humorous quotations, carefully handpicked and edited by writer and broadcaster Gyles Brandreth, From Art to Bores, Tennis to Wine, this little dictionary contains over,of the best quotations, from witty oneliners and funny phrases to pithy comments and unintended humour.


"If you live to be one hundred you've got it made, Very few people die past

that age, " George Burns

"I thought coq au vin was love in a lorry, " Victoria Wood

"Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a liedetector, " Graham Greene

"The trouble with a book is that you never know what's in it until it's too late, " Jeanette Winterson
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Would have appreciated larger text Full name: Gyles Daubeney Brandreth, A former Oxford Scholar, President of the Oxford Union and MP for the City of Chester, Gyles Brandreths career has ranged from being a Whip and Lord Commissioner of the Treasury in John Majors government to starring in his own award winning musical revue in Londons West End.
A prolific broadcaster in programmes ranging from Just a Minute to Have I Got News for You, an acclaimed interviewer principally for the Sunday Telegraph, a novelist, childrens author and biographer, his best selling diary, sitelink Breaking the Code, was described as By far the best political diary of recent years, far perceptive and revealing than Alan Clarks The Times and Searingly honest, wildly indiscreet, and incredibl Full name: Gyles Daubeney Brandreth.
A former Oxford Scholar, President of the Oxford Union and MP for the City of Chester, Gyles Brandreths career has ranged from being a Whip and Lord Commissioner of the Treasury in John Majors government to starring in his own award winning musical revue in Londons West End.
A prolific broadcaster in programmes ranging from Just a Minute to Have I Got News for You, an acclaimed interviewer principally for the Sunday Telegraph, a novelist, childrens author and biographer, his best selling diary, sitelink Breaking the Code, was described as By far the best political diary of recent years, far perceptive and revealing than Alan Clarks The Times and Searingly honest, wildly indiscreet, and incredibly funny Daily Mail.
He is the author of two acclaimed royal biographies: sitelink Philip Elizabeth: Portrait of a Marriage and sitelink Charles Camilla: Portrait of a Love Affair, In/, John Murray in the UK and Simon Schuster in the US began publishing sitelink The Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries, his series of Victorian murder mysteries featuring Oscar Wilde as the detective.
As a performer, Gyles Brandreth has been seen most recently in ZIPP! ONE HUNDRED MUSICALS FOR LESS THAN THE PRICE OF ONE at the Duchess Theatre and on tour throughout the UK, and as Malvolio and the Sea Captain in TWELFTH NIGHT THE MUSICAL at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Gyles Brandreth is one of Britains busiest after dinner speakers and award ceremony hosts, He has won awards himself, and been nominated for awards, as a public speaker, novelist, childrens writer, broadcaster Sony, political diarist Channel Four, journalist British Press Awards, theatre producer Olivier, and businessman British Tourist Authority Come to Britain Trophy.
He is married to writer and publisher Michèle Brown, with whom he co curated the exhibition of twentieth century childrens authors at the National Portrait Gallery and founded the award winning Teddy Bear Museum now based at the Polka Theatre in Wimbledon.
He is a trustee of the British Forces Foundation, and a former chairman and now vice president of the National Playing Fields Association, Gyles Brandreths forebears include George R, Sims the highest paid journalist of his day, who wrote the ballad Christmas Day in the Workhouse and Jeremiah Brandreth the last man in England to be beheaded for treason.
His great great grandfather, Benjamin Brandreth, promoted Brandreths Pills a medicine that cured everything! and was a pioneer of modern advertising and a New York state senator, Today, Gyles Brandreth has family living in New York, Maryland, South Carolina and California, He has been London correspondent for “Up to the Minute” on CBS News and his books published in the United States include the New York Times best seller, sitelink The Joy of Lex and, most recently, sitelink Philip Elizabeth: Portrait of a Royal Marriage.
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