The New Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations

By Kate Hughes and Robert Andrews

This title contains over 8000 quotations from 1914 to 2001, arranged alphabetically by author with a short biography introducing each author and contextual remarks. It includes quotations from Margot Asquith to Monica Lewinski, George V to Boutros Boutros-Galli, and Jonathan Aitken to Frank Zappa. It illuminates individual remarks and sayings, clarifying who said what (did James Cagney ever really say You dirty rat?), why they said it and how they often wished they hadn't.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140514430
• ISBN13: 9780140514438
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 598 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.8" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Wonderful

This book replaces completeness with something better-- quality. Keyword and thematic indexes. A couple of sentences giving background for each person and, if necessary, the circumstances of the quote. This is the thing to pick up if you're interested in quotes that are a little hipper than Barlett's I've-heard-that-a-million-times quotes. Great fun to browse, e.g.: "I think it pisses God off it you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it"--Alice Walker