The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations (2nd edition)

From the rhetoric of Winston Churchill, the Beatles being “more popular than Jesus”, and right up to the aftermath of September 11, the second edition of The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations offers “a fascinating snapshot of the people, events, and concerns of the twentieth and twenty‐first centuries”, to quote the Dictionary itself. With over 5,000 quotations, 100 of which are from the last two years alone, this is both a useful and an entertaining reference source.

The revised Modern Quotations is presented in a very clear and accessible format, with the authors’ names in bold, and the quotations evenly...