Do you want to train your quick wit? Enrich a presentation with striking ideas? Have a few strong lines ready for small talk at parties? Here comes the essential, cheeky alternative to the conventional boring quote collections. A compendium of witty mockery, sharp sarcasm, and sparkling humor, incisive, pointed, ironic, combative, carefree, sarcastic, or deeply wicked. This handbook of a different kind is user-friendly, organized alphabetically from A (like Adventure) to Z (like Cynicism), and concludes with an author index. Strong ammunition for verbal battles is provided by Peter Altenberg, Giacomo Casanova, Coco Chanel, Zsa Zsa Gábor, Heinrich Heine, Erich Kästner, Alfred Kerr, Karl Kraus, Erica Jong, Dorothy Parker, Alfred Polgar, François La Rochefoucauld, Françoise Sagan, Kurt Tucholsky, Mae West, and Oscar.