| Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. |
| —Letters and Social Aims. Quotation and Originality. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations
Drawn from the Speech and Literature of all Nations, Ancient and Modern, Classic and Popular, in English and Foreign Text.
Compiled by J.K. Hoyt & K.L. Roberts
The 21,700 quotations in this standard reference bible, organized by major category, feature original language with translations alongside the classic English and American authors.
Contents
NEW YORK, LONDON: FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY, 1922
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2009
- List of Subjects
- Directory of 917 Quote Classifications
- Most Popular Quote Categories
- Age, Authorship, Beauty, Books, Character, Death, Eating, Epitaph, Fate, Fear, Folly, Fortune, Freedom, Friends, God, Government, Happiness, Heaven, Honor, Hope, Judgment, Justice, Kisses, Knowledge, Labor, Laughter, Law, Learning, Liberty, Life, Love, Lying, Man, Matrimony, Memory, Mind, Money, Music, Nature, Patriotism, Peace, Pleasure, Poets, Politics, Poverty, Power, Prayer, Proverbs and Popular Phrases, Punishment, Religion, Rose, Royalty, Silence, Sin, Slavery, Sleep, Soldiers, Sorrow, The Soul, Speech, Stars, Success, Sympathy, Teaching, Tears, Thought, Time, Toasts, Truth, Tyranny, Vanity, Victory, Virtue, War, Wealth, Wine and Spirits, Wisdom, Wit, Woman, Wooing, Words, Work, World, Youth