Author: David Evans MacdonnelPublisher:
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Category : Quotations, English
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
A Dictionary of Select and Popular Quotations
Author: David Evans MacdonnelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Quotations, English
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
A Dictionary of Select and Popular Quotations which are in Daily Use
Author: A Dictionary of Select and Popular Quotations which are in Daily Use
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368185055
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
A Dictionary Of Select And Popular Quotations
Author: David Evans MacdonnelPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781021538321
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This dictionary provides a collection of popular and frequently-used quotations, organized by theme. It includes quotes from a wide range of sources, from Shakespeare to the Bible to contemporary literature. The book is a useful tool for writers, speakers, and anyone who wants to add a bit of wit and wisdom to their communications. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
A Dictionary of Select and Popular Quotations
Author: D. E. MacdonnelA Dictionary of Select and Popular Quotations
Author: David Evans MacdonnelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
A Dictionary of Select and Popular Quotations, which are in Daily Use
Author: David Evans MacdonnelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Quotations, English
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations
Author: Tony AugardePublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192830869
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf, Martin Luther King and John F. Kennedy, Louis Armstrong and Mae West, Woody Allen and Dorothy Parker--these are but a few of the figures who have given voice to our century's most memorable quotations. Now, in The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations, A.J. Augarde gathers together 6,000 of the best known quotes from our time, drawn from novels, plays, poems, essays, speeches, films, radio and television, songs, and even advertisements. Here readers will find the history-making quotes, from Churchill's stirring wartime speeches ("Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few"), to Neville Chamberlain's infamous "Peace for our time," to Spiro T. Agnew's outrageous "If you've seen one city slum you've seen them all." On the lighter side, readers will enjoy such wits as Woody Allen ("It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens"), Fran Lebowitz ("Food is an important part of a balanced diet"), and Dorothy Parker ("This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force"). There are generous excerpts from literature, from the novels of Hemingway and Joyce, the poetry of Auden, Eliot, and Pound, the plays of Lillian Hellman and Anita Loos, and the lyrics of Irving Berlin and Cole Porter ("In olden days a glimpse of stocking / Was looked on as something shocking / Now, heaven knows, / Anything goes"). Augarde also includes famous book titles (such as Shepherd Mead's "How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying"), song titles (Larry Morey's "Whistle While You Work"), even cartoon captions (Bill Maudlin's wartime "I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages"). And of course, the book brims with wisdom, from Count Ciano's "Victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan," to Lord Morley's "You have not converted a man because you have silenced him," to Alfred Adler's "It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them." Designed both for reference and for browsing, the Dictionary arranges quotations in alphabetical order by author, with attributions after each quote so that readers can, if they wish, return to the original sources. In addition, the index helps the reader trace quotations from their most important keywords, so that if you know the quote but not the author, you can still find it easily. Whether you want to find out who first used the expression "a walk on the wild side" (it was Nelson Algren) or simply enjoy discovering fine turns of phrase or witty remarks (such as Beatrice Lillie's off-the-cuff comment to a waiter who spilled soup on her dress: "Never darken my Dior again"), The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations offers a unique view of the twentieth century through some of its most memorable bon mots.
The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations
Author: Robert AndrewsPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231071949
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1214
Book Description
Over 11,000 of these 18,000 quotations have never before appeared in a quotation book. Chosen not for their familiarity but for their quality and their relevance in the 1990s, these provocative quotations cover subjects from adolescence and adoption to yuppies and zoos.
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