Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

Cultural  

1. (1855) A standard American reference work for quotations from literature and speeches. The original compiler, John Bartlett, was a nineteenth-century American publisher.

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Example Sentences

Of course, it would be impossible to mention Berra without references to those classic Yogi-isms, of which no less than eight made it into Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2023

“Clearly, the speed of events meant that no matter when we went to press, we would be cutting off in the middle of the story,” says Geoffrey O’Brien, the general editor of Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 25, 2022

Slate Plus: I am told that you submitted a quote that’s in the current edition of Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations.

From Slate • Apr. 22, 2016

The book follows a loose chronology, with the quotations Mr. Day has connected reading at times like an expanded Chandler section in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations.

From New York Times • Dec. 21, 2014

He plodded through the poetry sections of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.

From The Man Upstairs and Other Stories by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)