Cassell Dictionary of Regrettable Quotations - Softcover

It's taken me five hugely enjoyable years to compile THE CASSELL DICTIONARY OF REGRETTABLE QUOTATIONS - a bumper collection of over 2,000 examples of the gaffes ... the bloopers ... the expert misinformation ... the pompous wrongheadedness of our so-called betters. From the 5th century BC to the present day, THE CASSELL DICTIONARY OF REGRETTABLE QUOTATIONS is proof that the sort of people who ought to know better than the rest of us, frequently don't.

"No reader interest" - publisher W H Allen rejects Frederick Forsythe's novel, 'The Day of the Jackal', 1970.

Politicians ... military leaders ... scientists ... philosophers ... critics ... captains of industry ... journalists ... publishers ... movie moguls ... all the self-appointed experts who like to tell us what's what: they're all here.

"Pish! A woman might piss it out." - The Lord Mayor of London, refusing to get out of bed for the Great Fire of London, 13 September 1666.

If you've ever suspected that our leaders might not be 100% fit to lead us, buy this book to prove yourself right. If you think experts are 100% trustworthy, buy this book for your own protection. If you think 'potato' is spelled with an 'e', you'll find yourself on pages 178-180. Have fun! David Milsted