Little Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

• 4,000 of the best quotations of past and present
• Special words for any special occasion: snappy one-liners and the world's greatest ideas
• Over 300 themes - from Fashion to Philosophy, Censorship to Sex

New to this edition

• New themes: Africa, Facts, Honesty, India, Insight, Kissing, Persistence, Wisdom, Wit
• New quotes: over 60 including: 'Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.' Muhammad Ali; 'Of all animals the boy is the most unmanageable.' Aristotle; 'Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.' Beethoven; 'Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.' St Catherine of Siena; 'The value of an idea lies in the using of it.' Edison; 'The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.' Germaine Greer; 'God is the breath of all breath.' Kabir; 'If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything, is ready, we shall never begin.' Turgenev;
• Over 400 quotes new to this edition

Readership: General readers, especially those wanting to make a speech or write a note on special occasions and celebrations. A perfect gift.

Edited by Susan Ratcliffe, Associate Editor, Quotations, Oxford University Press

Susan Ratcliffe is Associate Editor for Oxford Quotations Dictionaries, and has previously edited the Oxford Treasury of Sayings and Quotations and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.

Foreword
List of Subjects
Main Dictionary
Author Index