The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation - Hardcover

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9780198662693: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation

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ISBN 10: 0198662696 ISBN 13: 9780198662693

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2003

Ten thousand quotations, proverbs, and phrases cover some 450 subject categories, including such concrete and abstract headings as achievement, Australia, communism, economics, the paranormal, and youth.

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Review:

When you want to launch a new chapter, win a fight, spice a speech, or merely wax philosophical before the fire, there's nothing like an apt quotation. Elizabeth Knowles has compiled more than 10,000 pithy phrases covering more than 350 themes, from "Absence" and "Achievement" to "Writing" and "Youth." Flip through the pages and there's Sydney Smith saying, "I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland"; Tom Lehrer opining, "Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it"; and Gloria Steinem reflecting, "We are becoming the men we wanted to marry." It's a sparkling collection, so finely indexed that it won't take all day to find the quote you seek.

About the Author:

Susan Ratcliffe is Associate Editor of the Oxford Quotations Dictionaries. She is the editor of People on People: The Oxford Dictionary of Biographical Quotations (2001), The Little Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (2nd edn, 2001), The Oxford Dictionary of Thematic Quotations (2000), and Love Quotations (1999).

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