Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

Familiar Quotations A collection of passages, phrases, and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient and modern literature.

Authors appear chronologically in the order of their birth dates; authors born in the same year are arranged alphabetically. The quotations for each author are generally in chronological order according to the date of publication (in some instances according to the date of composition). Poetry generally precedes prose for authors who wrote both.

Each quotation ha...