Cassell Companion to Quotations

Surely not yet another dictionary of quotations? No, indeed, this is a companion: something rather different and in fact very entertaining, informative and satisfying. This is a book containing quotations with a story to tell, or quotations with a purpose: only a minimal number of the entries included in this volume are here because, in true dictionary of quotations fashion, they have to be. All this is explained in the introduction. It enumerates two kinds of traditional quotation dictionary: those which anticipate the interests or the requirements of their readers, and those which gather, often in specialised fields, what the...