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

Likewise, there’s little to account for Luthor’s other references and quotations, though they are plentiful, so much so that the film might be retitled Batman v Superman v Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations Man.

From Slate • Mar. 29, 2016

The moral to that story may be that you should never engage in a war of words with Ms. Silverman without being prepared to unholster a few linguistic constructions not found in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations.

From New York Times • May 3, 2010

This reference is given in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.

From The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc by De Quincey, Thomas