Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations - Softcover

A handy bon mot is a beautiful thing. For launching a speech, wrapping up a term paper, concluding an argument, or merely waxing sophisticated in front of those you'd like to impress, there's nothing like a well-turned phrase with the authoritative stamp of having been uttered originally by someone else. Webster's quips and epigrams are tidily arranged in more than 200 categories--everything from "Acting" ("Acting is not an important job in the scheme of things. Plumbing is." --Spencer Tracy) to "Youth" ("Youth is wasted on the young." --George Bernard Shaw). It's a compact book, light enough to browse one-handed, small enough to fit in a purse, and full of adages, anecdotes, apothegms, and axioms--more than 2,500 in all, and cross-referenced by topic and author--that are absorbing, browsable, and abundantly quotable. --Stephanie Gold

Complete cross-referenced index for topics and sources.

Key source information with brief author biography and birth and death years.

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