Seitz, Raymond 85
Selden, John 29
Self, Will 175
Seneca 386
Sentamu, John 31
Serafinowicz, Peter 340
Sewell, Brian 383
Seymour, William Kean, Lord 180
Shakespeare, William 49, 309, 311, 358, 362, 365, 379, 402
Shankly, Bill 335
Shaw, George Bernard 14, 34, 44, 56, 88, 95, 115, 211, 220, 228, 275, 278, 290, 292, 305, 306, 363, 374
Shaw-Lefevre, Charles 170
Shear, Marie 349
Shelley, Percy Bysshe 38, 126
Sheridan, General Philip 78
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley 124
Sheridan, Tom 125
Shinwell, Emanuel 116
Sidibe, Gabourey 338
Sidney, Philip, Sir 48
Sigismund 392
Simmons, Matthew 334
Simon, John 289, 290
Simpson, Homer 10
Sinatra, Frank 346, 380
Sitwell, Edith 239, 243, 270
Skrabanek, Petr 8
Sloan, Jerry 328
Smart, Christopher 258
Smith, Adam 317
Smith, F.E. 88, 137, 314
Smith, Linda 72, 98
Smith, Sydney 32, 60, 61, 74, 249, 293, 313, 316, 364, 376, 378
Smith, Welton 404
Smuts, Jan 136
Soames, Nicholas 179, 407
Socrates 108
Solanas, Valerie 349, 361
Solon 313
Somerset Maugham, W. 20, 234, 235, 252, 362, 371, 385
Somoza, Anastasio 205
Sontag, Susan 81
Sophocles 356
Soubry, Anna 166
Southey, Robert 404
Southwell, Charles 38
Spark, Muriel 349
St John-Stevas, Norman 161
Stalin, Joseph 119, 209
Stanley, Thomas, Lord 102
Stanwyck, Barbara 339
Starkey, David 20
Steel, Mark 336
Stein, Gertrude 246
Steinbeck, John 329
Steinem, Gloria 377
Stelzer, Irwin 318
Stephen, James Kenneth 263
Stevenson, Adlai 195, 222
Stevenson, Melford, Mr Justice 72, 74
Stevenson, Robert Louis 87, 187, 372
Steyn, Mark 196, 281
Stinnett, Caskie 112
Stocks, Mary 24
Stone, Sharon 358
Stoppard, Tom 20, 218, 241, 267, 269, 311
Strachey, Lytton 243
Stravinsky, Igor 274, 275
Styles, John 261
Suárez, Luis 333
Summers, Lawrence 40
Susskind, David 288
Swift, Jonathan 91, 213, 259, 350
Swift, Taylor 283
Syme, Ronald 100
Taft, William Howard 185
Taleb, Nassim Nicholas 320
Talleyrand, Charles, Prince de 50, 110, 357, 389
Tan-Sun, Chen 65
Tay, Microsoft bot 80
Taylor, A.J.P. 106, 133, 135, 244
Taylor, Elizabeth 18
Taylor Parker, Henry 272
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr 275
Tebbit, Norman 104
Tedder, J.D. 34
Templeton Strong, George 275
Tennyson, Alfred Lord 233, 258, 263, 264
Thabit, Hassan Ibn 392
Thackeray, William 260
Thatcher, Margaret 111, 121, 159, 160, 161, 162, 385
Theroux, Paul 60, 286
Thomas, Dylan 55, 244, 305, 345
Thomas, Gwyn 56
Thomas, Irene 378
Thomas, Lowell 241
Thompson, E.P. 203
Thompson, Hunter S. 195, 217
Thoreau, Henry David 168, 385
Thorpe, Jeremy 156
Thurber, James 299, 359
Titian 268
Tolstoy, Leo 20, 38, 304
Toscanini, Arturo 277
Toynbee, Arnold 53
Treneman, Ann 101, 300, 408
Trollope, Anthony 108, 238
Trollope, Frances 303
Trotsky, Leon 119
Trudeau, Pierre 65, 203
Trueman, Fred 323
Truman, Harry S. 192, 195, 279
Trump, Donald 200, 201, 210
Trumpington, Jean, Baroness 180
Turner, Janice 30
Tusk, Donald 409
Twain, Mark 16, 22, 50, 57, 78, 85, 186, 214, 218, 235, 269, 270, 343
Updike, John 52, 373
Ustinov, Peter 266
Van Doren, Mamie 357
Van Morrison, George, Sir 15
Van Wyck Brooks 262
Vanstone, W.H. 31
Vaughan, Bill 72, 386
Vaughan, Janet, Dame 158
Vaughan Williams, Ralph 276
Veeck, Bill 327
Vidal, Gore 9, 171, 196, 199, 200, 271, 368
Viner, Brian 296
Vizinczey, Stephen 21
Voltaire 26, 28, 38, 304, 308, 374
von Bismarck, Otto 51, 312
von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang 45
von Treitschke, Heinrich 45
Vonnegut, Kurt 75, 103, 252
Wagner, Richard 273
Wakeham, John, Lord 159
Walden, George 45
Walker, Alexander 293
Walpole, Horace 49, 77, 257, 304
Walsh, Louis 286
Warren, Earl 216
Warsi, Sayeeda 407
Waterhouse, Keith 21, 77
Watkins, Alan 172
Watson, Joe 302
Watt, James 80
Watterson, Bill 18
Waugh, Auberon 101, 106, 111, 265, 287
Waugh, Evelyn 55, 89, 138, 216, 251, 307
Waugh, Mark 324
Wayne, John 11
Webster, Daniel 358
Weldon, Fay 382
Welles, Orson 62, 88, 300
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke 37, 105, 159, 209
Wells, H.G. 46, 95, 234, 238
Wentworth, Peter 92
West, Kanye 198, 286
West, Mae 340, 356, 382
West, Rebecca 44, 350
Weston, General 210
Wharton, Edith 267
Wheeler, Hugh 377
Whistler, James 269
White, E.B. 177, 238
White, Theodore H. 194
Whitehall, Jack 381
Whitelaw, William 157
Whitman, Walt 187
Whitton, Charlotte 359
Wholey, Dennis 9
Widdecombe, Ann 165
Wilde, Oscar 13, 45, 52, 117, 222, 233, 238, 258, 263, 268, 270, 300, 306, 331, 343, 379
Wilder, Billy 282, 297
Wilding, Michael 295
Wilkes, John 94, 315
William, Duke of Gloucester, later George III 247
Williams, Edward Bennet 105
Williams, Robin 330, 346
Williams, Tennessee 9, 43, 310
Willie, Groundsman 50
Willkie, Wendell 108
Wilmot, John, Earl of Rochester 94
Wilson, E.O. 120
Wilson, Earl 300
Wilson, Edmund 239
Wilson, Harold 158
Wilson, Woodrow 191, 325
Winchell, Walter 299
Wodehouse, P.G. 20, 62, 331, 354, 384
Wolf, Martin 201
Wolfe, Humbert 220
Wolfe, Tom 103
Wolfowitz, Paul 212
Wood, Dudley 56
Wooldridge, Ian 323
Woolf, Virginia 238, 239, 242, 304, 350, 360, 369, 385
Woollcott, Alexander 47, 29
Worsthorne, Peregrine 225
Wortham, Hugo 226
Wright, Paul, Sir 62
Wright, Peter 127
Wright, Steven 311
Wyndham Lewis, Percy 246, 247, 264
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sp; Yeats, W.B. 264, 351
Yeltsin, Boris 118, 204
Yoko Ono 355
Young, Hugo 156, 163
Youngman, Henry 374
Yutang, Lin 44
Zangwill, Israel 305
Zappa, Frank 226
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