The Concise Dictionary of Foreign Quotations - Hardcover

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9780953330003: The Concise Dictionary of Foreign Quotations

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0953330001 ISBN 13: 9780953330003

Publisher: Stacey International, 1998

This dictionary contains quotations in Latin, French, German, Italian and Spanish. The entries were chosen by five editors, each widely read in the language concerned. The majority of the entries will probably be familiar to an English reader, and a few were chosen because, although unfamiliar, the editorial team thought them delightful. The sayings are accompanied by their translation into English and cross-indexed for easy reference. The range includes literary quotations, political quotations, poetic thoughts, pungent comments, polished epigrams and shrewd perceptions, by everyone from Cicero to Sartre, Goethe to Goering.

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"All the phrases you were never quite sure of - ab ovo usque ad mala. For the reader or writer, for the gratin or the hoi polloi, this is the indispensable vade mecum. Buy it -mandamus!" -- Robert Robinson

"I have been waiting for this book for half a century - not only indispensable for reference, but perfect for the bedside, as all really good dictionaries should be." -- John Julius Norwich

"This dictionary is a work of scholarship, a work of reference, and a delight to dip into ." -- William Rees-Mogg

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