Professional writers and speakers, students and business professionals will find this book indispensable for enlivening articles, speeches, reports, or presentations. Over 200 subject categories group more than 4,000 quotations for quick and easy location and selection. Quotes are also extensively cross-referenced and indexed by both subject and author. The Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations is a must in any personal reference library.
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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
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Complete cross-referenced index for topics and sources.
Key source information with brief author biography and birth and death years.
Trade paperback format for quality and value. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Wonderful little resource,
By Harrison (Baltimore, MD) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations (Paperback)
What an excellent conversation piece! I am a high school student and I took this into class the other day and you'd have no idea how many intelligent conversations this little book can start up. Everybody wanted to see what Benjamin Franklin said about one thing or what Mark Twain said about another. The book is set up alpahbetically by subject so you go straight to "Love" or "Failure" (two popular topics in high school). This is a book I would reccomend for anybody who just likes to make small talk, because now with these quotations, you can really spice it up! I gave it four stars instead of five because I would have liked it to have been bigger... more quotes I mean.........END
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