The Penguin Dictionary of Quotations

The reader, the writer, the after-dinner speaker, the crossword-puzzle solver and the browser-all will find this invaluable companion. Turn up such key-words as God, life, love, money, peace, war, word and world and discover a babel of opinions: with one or more of which you may care to embellish your writing or conversation. Or, by making direct use of the first section - the authors are in alphabetical order - read the outstanding and memorable statements made by the great. Or by the not-so-great who have enriched the language with a single phrase. Foreign languages are quoted in the original where the quotation is generally remembered in its foreign from, but an English translation is always provided.