Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

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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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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

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

In the latest edition of Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, there’s a sports figure who towers over the competition.

From New York Times ● May 8, 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

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

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

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