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9780140514445: Dormant: The New Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations

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The "New Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations" contains over 8,000 quotations from 1914 to the present. As much a companion to the modern age as it is an entertaining and useful reference tool, it takes the reader on a tour of the wit and wisdom of the great and the good, from Margot Asquith to Monica Lewinsky, from George V to Boutros Boutros-Galli and Jonathan Aitken to Frank Zappa. It contains hyperlinked index for simple quote finding.

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Itas better to be quotable than honest. (Tom Stoppard) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking. (H.L. Mencken)

About the Author

Robert Andrews is an experienced quotations sleuth. Among other works, he has edited the Routledge Dictionary of Quotations and the Cassell Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations as well as The New Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations. He has also written travel guides on Britain and Southern Italy. He lives in Bristol.

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