Title & Author:

The Oxford dictionary of quotations / edited by Elizabeth Knowles.

Edition:

5th ed.

Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

Description:

xv, 1136 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
Revised edition of: The Oxford dictionary of quotations / edited by Angela Partington. 4th ed. 1992.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Dictionary -- Special Categories -- Advertising slogans -- Borrowed titles -- Catchphrases -- Closing lines -- Epitaphs -- Film lines -- Film titles -- Last words -- Military sayings, slogans, and songs -- Misquotations -- Mottoes -- Newspaper headlines and leaders -- Official advice -- Opening lines -- Political slogans and songs -- Prayers -- Sayings and Slogans -- Songs, spirituals, and shanties -- Telegrams -- Toasts -- Administration -- Age -- America -- Art -- Books -- Britain -- Business -- Computing -- Drinks -- Education -- Environment -- Europe -- Family -- Fashion -- Film -- Food -- Future -- Gardening -- Health and Fitness -- Law -- Literature -- Love -- Marriage -- Men and Women -- Music -- Past -- Photography -- Politics -- Present -- Press -- Quotations -- Religion -- Royalty -- Science -- Seasons -- Sex -- Sport -- Technology -- Television -- Transport -- Travel -- War -- Weather -- Youth.

Summary:

"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."--Jacket.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0198601735 (acid-free paper)
9780198601739 (acid-free paper)

Subject:

Quotations.
Quotations, English.
Aphorisms and Proverbs as Topic
Citations.
Citations anglaises.
quotations (texts)
Citaten.

Form/genre:

Quotations.
Collected Work
Dictionaries.
Quotations (texts)
quotations (texts)
Citations.

Added entries:

Knowles, Elizabeth (Elizabeth M.)

Holdings:

Location: Library study room 210233
Call No.: PN6080 .O9 1999
Status: Available