The New Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations

by Robert Andrews

Book Overview

The New Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations contains over 8,000 quotations from 1914 to the present. As much a companion to the modern age as it is an entertaining and useful reference tool, it takes the reader on a tour of the wit and wisdom of the great and the good, from Margot Asquith to Monica Lewinsky, from George V to Boutros Boutros-Galli and Jonathan Aitken to Frank Zappa.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0141011823
• ISBN13: 9780141011820
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 709 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.1" x 7.8"

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