• Comprehensive: key quotations of today underpinned by worldwide, landmark voices of the 20th and 21st centuries in over 5,000 quotations
• Informative and entertaining: from the deeply serious to the frivolous and surreal
• New authors include Pamela Anderson, Kemal Ataturk, Pope Benedict XVI, David Cameron, Paula Radcliffe, and Oprah Winfrey
• Unique selection process: quotes identified by the largest ongoing language research programme in the world, Oxford English Corpus, ensuring that all the most popular and widely-used quotes are featured
• Easy-to-use keyword index traces quotations even if you don't know the author

Readership: Writers, speakers, students, journalists, researchers, and general readers.

Edited by Elizabeth Knowles, Previously of OUP, now freelance.

Review(s) from previous edition

"Gathers together the brightest and wittiest thoughts of the 20th and 21st centuries... There's good fun to be found here. - The Times

"Authoritative reference and endless browsing" - Good Book Guide

"Elizabeth Knowles has edited this latest Oxford blockbuster with commendable zing" - Sunday Times

"A good feel for American culture" - International Herald Tribune

Introduction
How to Use this Dictionary
Main Dictionary
Thematic Index
Keyword Index