Elizabeth Knowles has been the Managing Editor of Oxford's Quotations Dictionaries since 1993. She lives in the United Kingdom.
In one of his elegies, Rilke proclaimed, "Who has not sat nervously before the stage curtain of his heart." In a short story, Anton Chekhov wrote, "If a lot of cures are suggested for a disease, it means that the disease is incurable." This is but a sampling of the kinds of quotations one finds in this newly revised Oxford classic. With its more than 20,000 quotations, organized alphabetically by author's last name, the dictionary will both educate and entertain anyone who appreciates other people's wisdom or, alternately, enjoys discovering statements that are downright dumb (e.g., Bill Clinton's comment about smoking pot). Since the publication of the fifth edition in 1999, so much has been said by such omnipresent figures as Saddam Hussein, George W. Bush, and Martha Stewart that libraries will definitely want an update, though the hundreds of new entries reach back to older times as well. Mirela Roncevic Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
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