Download or read book The Travellers Dictionary of Quotation written by Peter Yapp and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1983 with total page 1022 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quotes from authors, including Herman Melville, William Shakespeare, Ogdan Nash, and Voltaire, describe a wide range of cities and countries

Download or read book The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations written by Connie Robertson and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 1998 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quotations have exercised a particular fascination for humanity since the birth of recorded language and their potency in the age of the soundbite is stronger than ever. We revel in quotations, compete to know them, love them, hate them and inscribe them in books and on buildings, and this freshly revised and updated dictionary includes a wealth of new material among its 13,000 familiar, serious, outrageous, witty and thought-provoking entries.The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations is an essential work of reference for every writer, journalist and speech-maker, as well as being a treasure-trove for the browser and the simply curious. From the Roman poet Ovid's observation that 'Judgement of beauty can er, what with the wine and the dark' to Oscar Wilde's that 'Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes', there is a wide diversity of sayings to add spice to our conversation and enrich our daily lives. The book is alphabetically arranged by author and indexed by keyword for ease of use.

Download or read book Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations written by Elizabeth M. Knowles and published by Oxford [England] : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 1160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major new edition of The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations offers the broadest and most up-to-date coverage of quotations available today. Now with 20,000 quotations arranged by author, this is Oxford's largest quotations dictionary ever. As well as quotations from traditional sources,and with improved coverage of world religions and classical Greek and Latin literature, this foremost dictionary of quotations now covers areas such as proverbs and nursery rhymes. For the first time there are special sections for Advertising Slogans, Epitaphs, Film Lines, and Misquotations, whichbring together topical and related quotes, and allow you to browse through the best quotations on a given subject. In this new fifth edition there is enhanced accessibility with a new thematic index to help you find the best quotes on a chosen subject, more in-depth details of the earliest traceable source, an extensive keyword index, and biographical cross-references, so you will easily be able to findquotations for all occasions, and identify who said what, where, and when.

Download or read book Blackie s Dictionary of Quotations written by Blackie and published by S. Chand Publishing. This book was released on with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains a compilation of quotable quotes An ideal reference for one and all More than 4000 entries.

Download or read book Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources written by James Rev. Wood and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 1450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dictionary results from the titanic work by Rev. James Wood who collected quotations from ancient and modern English and foreign sources and put them in alphabetic order. The dictionary contains phrases, mottoes, maxims, proverbs, definitions, aphorisms, and sayings of different prominent people.

Download or read book The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations written by Robert Andrews and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 1214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Quote Sleuth written by Anthony W. Shipps and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tracer's goals are to identify the source of a quotation, to find or to produce detailed citation based on a reliable edition of the work, to find an authoritative text of the passage being traced, and to do all this in the shortest time possible and with the least possible amount of effort.

Download or read book A new dictionary of quotations from the Greek Latin and modern languages tr by the author of Live and learn written by Greek and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations written by Hugh Rawson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 913 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With nearly 6,000 quotations arranged historically and annotated extensively, you'll know not just who said what, but get the full story behind the quote. Follow any of the more than five hundred topics (from Abolition to Zeal) and you will get a nutshell history of what great (and not-so-great) Americans had to say about each one. Quotations are arranged chronologically in each topic, allowing the reader to trace patterns of thought over time.Fully indexed by author (including brief biographical sketches) and keyword, this is an essential reference for anyone interested in the great people and ideas of American history.

Download or read book A Dictionary of Quotations written by Alexander Norman Jeffares and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 1050 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 20, 000 quotations, both classic and modern, on thousands of alphabetically arranged subjects.

Download or read book A New Dictionary of Quotations from the Greek Latin and Modern Languages written by and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A New Dictionary of Quotations from the Greek Latin and Modern Languages translated into English and occasionally accompanied with illustrations historical poetical and anecdotical By the author of Live and Learn With an extensive index referring to every important word written by DICTIONARY. and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources written by Rev. James Wood and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Dictionary of Quotations written by David Evans Macdonnel and published by . This book was released on 1797 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Oxford Dictionary of Quotations written by Elizabeth Knowles and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-18 with total page 2642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations was published in 1941 and for over 70 years this bestselling book has remained unrivalled in its coverage of quotations past and present. The eighth edition is a vast treasury of wit and wisdom spanning the centuries and providing the ultimate answer to the question, 'Who said that?' Find that half-remembered line in a browser's paradise of over 20,000 quotations, comprehensively indexed for ready reference. Lord Byron may have taken the view: 'I think it great affectation not to quote oneself', but for the less self-centred the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations provides a quote for every occasion from the greatest minds of history and from undistinguished characters known only for one happy line. Drawing on Oxford's unrivalled dictionary research programme and unique language monitoring, over 700 new quotations have been added to this eighth edition from authors ranging from St Joan of Arc and Coco Chanel to Albrecht Dürer and Thomas Jefferson. New sayings from across the ages include 'It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish' (the classical writer Heraclitus), 'Fight on, and God will give the Victory' (the suffragette Emily Wilding Davison), and 'The future is already here—it's just not evenly distributed' (the writer William Gibson).

Download or read book The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations written by Angela Partington and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 907 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: