Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

Collected passages, phrases & proverbs, spanning five,zero years of history & culture, traced to their sources in literature—revised & updated for its 18th edition.

First published in 1855 and continuously in print since then, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is the most authoritative, thought-provoking, and entertaining collection of quotations available. This new edition spans five,zero years of history and culture, from the ancient Egyptians to the latest movie, and contains twenty,zero quotations. Under the direction of poet and cultural historian Geoffrey O'Brien, Barlett's has been revised and updated to reflect the ever-changing cultural climate and includes thousands of new quotations. It will inspire you to polish a presentation, enrich a narrative, add zest to a toast, pepper a conversation, and entertain the age-old question "Who said that?"