Wisdom & Wordplay

Wisdom & Wordplay is packed with 300 highly original one-liners, taken from Robert Eddison’s own uniquely coined stash of thousands. They come under 150 different subjects, ranging from sex to political correctness. This book comprises a fraction of Robert’s awesome oeuvre, conjured up, since the end of the last century, on the back of innumerable envelopes and buses.

After winning a European scholarship and graduating in Modern Languages and Law at Cambridge, Robert Eddison became a university lecturer, before embarking on a lecture tour of America in his mid-twenties. After a spell as a junior Foreign Office consultant, he settled for a freelance career in journalism, writing colour features for the broadsheets and tabloids.

“Could it just be that, in the author of this remarkable book, Wilde has finally met his match?”
— Gyles Brandreth

“A superb collection. One snappy aphorism is worth a thousand flabby platitudes. Feel free to quote me!” Stanley Johnson
“Witty and concise… really wonderful… I will be reading them time and time again.” Ronald Blythe, author of Akenfield

“These aphorisms show the influence of many schools: here a touch of Pascal, and there an echo of La Rochefoucauld, but most particularly the happy inspiration of Oscar Wilde.” Donald Mead, chairman, The Oscar Wilde Society

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