Famous Lines: A Columbia Dictionary of Familiar QuotationsColumbia University Press, 1997 - 625 pages The most up-to-date collection of familiar quotations available, Famous Lines brings together more than 6,000 of the most durable observations, witticisms, and incendiary statements from voices across the ages, from Aristotle to Malcolm X, from the Romantic odes of John Keats to the stream-of-consciousness Beat poetry of Jack Kerouac. Full author and key word indexes and complete cross-referencing by subject make this the best sourcebook for accurate answers on the statements that matter. |
Contents
Activism | 16 |
Hats | 22 |
Capital Punishment | 82 |
Childbirth | 88 |
Dandies and Dandyism | 107 |
Dullness | 135 |
Enemies | 143 |
Fiction | 174 |
Freud Sigmund | 186 |
Hell | 216 |
Hollywood California | 223 |
Hostages | 247 |
Menopause | 312 |
Advice | 318 |
Newspapers and Magazines | 336 |
Opposites | 367 |
Pregnancy and Childbirth | 390 |
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Outlaws | 596 |
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352 | 608 |
457 | 609 |
457 | 618 |
Common terms and phrases
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