The Oxford dictionary of quotations
By: edited by Elizabeth Knowles.
Contributors: Knowles, Elizabeth
Edition: 5th ed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1136
Subjects: Quotations; Quotations, English
Description: "The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations is acclaimed for its broad and authoritative coverage. Now with 20,000 quotations, this major new edition has been brought fully up to date, whilst traditional areas of coverage have been enhanced. Particular areas such as world religions and classical Greek and Latin literature have been improved, and proverbs and nursery rhymes are also included. In addition, there are new sections bringing together Advertising slogans, Epitaphs, Film lines, Misquotations, and other special categories of topical and related quotes." "With a new thematic index, which allows you to browse through the best quotations on a given subject, more background information, an extensive keyword index, and cross-references to quotations about authors, you will easily be able to find quotations for all occasions, and identify who said what, where, and when. Book jacket."--Jacket.
Notes: Rev. ed. of: The Oxford dictionary of quotations / edited by Angela Partington. 4th ed. 1992.
Includes indexes.