Its quotations outshine those in other publications available in the field. Little oxford dictionary of quotations 5th edition emerald insight. Oscar wilde is the guy with the greatest number of entries in the oxford dictionary of humorous quotations and he deserves to be. This is your opportunity to find out just who said imagination is the highest kite that can fly, we must be the change we wish to see in the world, or failure is not an option. Sally emersons top 10 books of quotations books the. A book of misquotations 2006, and the little oxford dictionary of proverbs. Explore 188 oxford quotes by authors including noam chomsky, william butler yeats, and stormzy at brainyquote.
The dictionary has been compiled from extensive evidence of the quotations that are actually used in the way they have been listed. Here readers will find in one volume the wit and wisdom of humanity. The oxford dictionary of quotations second edition abebooks. Beginning of a dialog window, including tabbed navigation to register an account or sign in to an existing account.
She recounts some of the details of choosing and processing quotations in her book on the life of charles williams one of the committee. Oxford dictionaries defines a quotation as a group of words taken from a text or. Bartletts familiar quotations search or browse over. Find that halfremembered line in a browsers paradise of quotations for all occasions. Life is too short to blend in, the oxford dictionary of quotations. The oxford dictionary of quotations oxford university. The oxford dictionary of quotations second edition revised and reset by oxford university and a great selection of related books, art and. Her other editorial credits include the oxford dictionary of modern quotations 3rd edition, 2007, what they didnt say. The new oxford dictionary of quotations 8th edition publishes today. Oxford essential quotations is an online collection based on the sixth edition of the concise oxford dictionary of quotations and the second edition of oxford quotations by subject.
The oxford dictionary of quotations, first published by the oxford university press in 1941, is an 1,100page book listing short quotations that are common in english language and culture the book begins with a preface explaining the term quotation. The oxford dictionary of quotations knowles, elizabeth on. Over 20,000 quotations a major new edition of the most authoritative dictionary of quotations available brings you the wit and wisdom of past and present from the ancients of east and west to the global village of the 21st century. A collection of over 8000 passages, phrases, and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient and modern literature. The book can be used for reference or for browsing. So the quotations on which the oxford english dictionary is based began to come in, and continued. Paperback published in 1979, 019211560x hardcover published in 1979, 0198600585 hardcover publishe. The oxford dictionary of quotations hardcover published 1941 by oxford university press sixth impression, 1949, hardcover, 879 pages. The quotation slip written by murray appears in the entry for dictionary, n. Here readers will find in one volume the wit and wisdom of humanitythe finest lines to be found in shakespeare, the bible, mark twain, groucho marx, and hundreds of other writers, philosophers, political figures, and entertainers. Life is too short to blend in, the oxford dictionary of quotations provides the ultimate answer to the questions who said that. The oxford dictionary of quotations berkeley teaching website. The new eighth edition of the oxford dictionary of quotations, edited by. I prefer montaignes i quote others only the better to express myself.
As well as the 5th and 6th editions of the oxford dictionary of quotations 1999, 2004, her editorial credits include the oxford dictionary of phrase and fable 2nd edition, 2005, the oxford dictionary of modern quotations 3rd edition, 2007, what they didnt say. The oxford dictionary of quotations by oxford university press. Oxford dictionary of quotations elizabeth knowles oxford. The oxford dictionary of quotations, first published by the oxford university press in 1941.
The best books on the oxford english dictionary five books. This book contains some 4,000 of the most famous and most useful sayings in the english. The quotations are drawn from novels, plays, poems, essays, speeches, films radio and. Elizabeth knowles is a historical lexicographer who worked on the 4th edition of the shorter oxford english dictionary 1993 and was editor of the 5th, 6th, and 7th editions of the oxford dictionary of quotations 1999, 2004, 2009. Ever since the first edition of the oxford dictionary of quotations published over 70 years ago, this bestselling book has remained unrivalled in its coverage of. The book was first issued in 1855 and is currently in its eighteenth edition, published in 2012. The most significant difference between them, to my mind, is that in the oxford.