The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations

Аннотация:

This is a completely new dictionary, containing about 5,000 quotations.
What is a "quotation"? It is a saying or piece of writing that strikes
people as so true or memorable that they quote it (or allude to it) in
speech or writing.

Often they will quote it directly, introducing it with
a phrase like "As ---- says" but equally often they will assume that the
reader or listener already knows the quotation, and they will simply
allude to it without mentioning its source (as in the headline "A ros‚ is
a ros‚ is a ros‚," referring obliquely to a line by Gertrude Stein).

This dictionary has been compiled from extensive evidence of the
quotations that are actually used in this way. The dictionary includes
the commonest quotations which were found in a collection of more than
200,000 citations assembled by combing books, magazines, and newspapers.

For example, our collections contained more than thirty examples each for
Edward Heath's "unacceptable face of capitalism" and Marshal McLuhan's
"The medium is the message," so both these quotations had to be included.


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