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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

Author Index: Aboth to Chateaubriand

Aboth, 16732022
Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, Lord (1834–1902), 144314441668
Adams, Abigail (1744–1818) letter to John Adams, 2010 letters from John Adams, 4439248189614621581
Adams, Henry Brooks (1838–1918), 2872971409
Adams, James Truslow (1878–1949), 431018
Adams, John (1735–1826), 259 (character in musical play, 1776), 2739911669 letter from Abigail Adams, 2010 letters to: Adams, Abigail, 4439248189614621581 Jefferson, Thomas, 12001619 McKean, Thomas, 1620 Taylor, John, 413
Adams, John Quincy (1767–1848), 6138761710
Adams, Samuel (1722–1803), 1621 letter from Arthur Lee, 1067
Addison, Joseph (1672–1719), 1304
AE (pseudonym of George William Russell). See Russell, George William.
Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.), 945186419952083
Aesop (fl. c. 550 B.C.), 1859
Agathon (c. 445–400 B.C.), 1291
Agnew, Spiro Theodore (1918–1996), 15315444110421330138915531876
Aiken, George (1892–1984), 888
Alcoholics Anonymous, 1472
Alderman, Edwin Anderson (1861–1931), 238
Alexander II, Czar of Russia (1818–1881), 1698
Alfange, Dean (1900–  ), 71
Alger, Horatio, Jr. (1834–1899), 1215
Allen, George Edward (1896–1973), 1410
Ambrose, Saint (340?–397), 1690
Amery, Leopold (1873–1955), quoting Thomas Carlyle, 1035
Ames, Fisher (1758–1808), 279
Amiel, Henri Frédéric (1821–1881), 1289
Anderson, John B. (1922–  ), 1411
Anderson, Maxwell (1888–1959), 8141045
Anstruther, Joyce. See Struther, Jan.
Appleton, Thomas Gold (1812–1884), 75
Aquinas, Saint Thomas (1225–1274), 1909
Arbuthnot, John (1667–1735), 992
Aristotle, (384–322 B.C.), 209482567129113901996
Armstrong, Neil Alden (1930–  ), 17371738
Arouet, François-Marie. See Voltaire.
Asch, Sholem (1880–1957), 1750
Ashurst Henry Fountain (1874–1962), 2981391
Astor, Nancy Witcher (Langhorne) (1879–1964), 2004
Atatürk, Kemal. See Kemal Atatürk.
The Atlanta Journal, slogan, 1244
Attlee, Clement Richard, 1st Earl Attlee and Viscount Prestwood (1883–1967), 1966
Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907–1973), 1856
Augustine, Saint (354–430), 9461869
Aurelius. See Marcus Aurelius.
Author Unknown
  Arabian proverb, 1682 Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament slogan, 128 Chinese proverb, 484 Danish proverb, 835 Fisherman’s prayer, 1479 Jesuit maxim, 199 Napoleon Anecdotes, 1559 on Action, 14 on Alcohol, 38 on America, 70 on Architecture, 94 on Children, 200 on China, 203204 on Citizenship, 217 on Committees, 241 on Congress, 277278 on Democracy, 426 on Doing Good, 453 on Doomsday, 455456 on Education, 484 on Experience, 577 on Facts, 585 on Flying, 604 on Guilt, 835837 on Happiness, 844 on Heroin, 852 on Jesus Christ, 921 on Last Words, 990 on Leadership, 1025 on Mortality, 1224 on Nation, 1238 on North Carolina, 1253 on People, 1347 on Perseverance, 1358 on Politics, 1432 on Prayers, 14771480 on Presidency, 1519 on Public Opinion, 1559 on Self-Pity, 1682 on Soldiers, 1727 on Success, 1786 on Voters and Voting, 1908 on War, 1954 on War and Peace, 1966 on Water, 1978 on Women, 2012 See also under Inscriptions; Poems in Keyword and Subject Index
Author unknown (attributed to): Attlee, Clement Richard, 1966 Bard of Cincinnati, 31 Briand, Aristide, 1954 Carman, Bliss, 585 Clemenceau, Georges, 1954 Disraeli, Benjamin, 1238 García Lorca, 14 Heinlein, Robert, 1432 Japanese philosopher (19th century), 1025 Jefferson, Thomas, 426 Kansas farmer, 1519 Lawrence, James, 990 MacLeish, Archibald, 1966 Marie Antoinette, 1347 Maxe, Bob, 1978 Perry, Oliver Hazard, 990 Philip II, King of Macedon, 1224 Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de, 1954 Thoreau, Henry David, 1786 U.S. Army Major, on Vietnam conflict, 1888 Veteran Virginia Democrat, 1408 Weller, Charles E., 1388 Westover, Jonathan, 391
Aycock, Charles B. (1859–1912), 515
Bacon, Francis (1561–1626), 8151163195519972084 quoting Virgil, 1176
Bailey, Joseph Weldon (1863–1929), 1392
Baillie, Joanna (1762–1851), 353
Balzac, Honoré de (1799–1850), 706
Bard of Cincinnati, 31
Barère de Vieuzac, Bertrand (1755–1841), 1065
Barkley, Alben William (1877–1956), 6991897
Barnum, Phineas Taylor (1810–1891), 609
Barrie, Sir James Matthew (1860–1937), 98820232085
Barrow, Joseph Louis. See Louis, Joe.
Barry, William Taylor (1785–1835), letter from James Madison, 496497969
Barton, B. S., letter from Thomas Jefferson, 617
Barton, Bruce (1886–1957), 379
Baruch, Bernard Mannes (1870–1965), 2336961262
Basil, Saint, bishop of Caesarea (c. 330–379), 89
Bastiat, Claude-Frédéric (1801–1850), 993
Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant (1818–1893), letter from Thomas Jefferson, 1307
Beecher, Henry Ward (1813–1887), 99411111241
Beers, Henry A. (1847–1926), 1574
Bellamy, Francis (1856–1931), 1363
Belloc, Hilaire (1870–1953), 682
Benét, Stephen Vincent (1898–1943), 146315421848
Ben-Gurion, David (1886–1973), 912
Bentinck, William, 1st Earl of Portland (1649–1709), letter from Duke of Wellington, 757
Benton, Thomas Hart (1782–1858), 304
Berryman, Clifford K. (1869–1949), 1910
Besier, Rudolf (1878–1942), 2074
Bethmann-Hollweg, Theobald Theodor Friedrich Alfred von (1856–1921), 1349
Bevan, Aneurin (1897–1960), 1714
Bhagavad Gita, 1231751
The Bible Amos, 931 Deuteronomy, 1112 Ecclesiastes, 45659113011810 Exodus, 1804 Genesis, 1152 Isaiah, 1956 Jeremiah, 10611316 Leviticus, 1046 Luke, 6356621315 Mark, 1851 Matthew, 1025926052087 Micah, 947 Proverbs, 8351331 Psalms: (16), 1827; (84), 669; (118), 91; (127), 662; (133), 1860; (139), 548 Romans, 516 II Thessalonians, 450 The Bible (Apocrypha) Ecclesiasticus, 995 I Maccabees, 402
Bierce, Ambrose (1842–c. 1914), 43713061393141214851898
Billings, Josh (pseudonym of Henry Wheeler Shaw, 1818–1885), 9661266
Bismarck, Otto von (1815–1898), 12299614131414
Bixby, Lydia, letter from Abraham Lincoln, 370
Black, Hugo LaFayette (1886–1971), 214
Black, Jeremiah Sullivan (1810–1883), 506
Blackstone, Sir William (1723–1780), 7889539971643
Blair, Eric. See Orwell, George.
Blair, Hugh (1718–1800), 1290
Blake, Eugene Carson (1906–1985), 1877
Blake, William (1757–1827), 1961464
Blanshard, Paul (1892–  ), 1711
Bloch, Jan Gotlib. See Bloch, Jean de.
Bloch, Jean de (1836–1902), 1957
Block, Herbert (1909–2001), 811
Boggs, Thomas Hale (1914–1972), quoting Fisher Ames, 279
Bolívar, Simón (1783–1830), 1047
Bolt, Robert (1924–1995), 4349981764
Borah, William Edgar (1865–1940), 72671
Börne, Karl Ludwig (1786–1837), 885
Bornier, Henri de (1825–1901), 343
Bovee, C. Nestell (1820–1904), 2011
Bowman, C. E., 2012
Bradlaugh, Charles (1833–1891), 672
Bradley, Omar N. (1893–1981), 1967
Bramwell, Sir George William Wilshire Bramwell, Baron (1808–1892), 1263
Brandeis, Louis Dembitz (1856–1941), 1377077897931048104915721755
Brennan, William J., Jr. (1906–1997), 1261
Breslin, Jimmy (1929–  ), 1415
Brewer, David Josiah (1837–1910), 1014
Brewster, Kingman, Jr. (1919–1988), 117
Briand, Aristide (1862–1932), 1954
Brillon de Jouy, Anne-Louise d’Hardancourt (1744–1824), letter from Benjamin Franklin, 2071
Brisbane, Arthur (1864–1936), letter from Woodrow Wilson, 171
Brooke, Rupert (1887–1915), 1720
Brooks, Phillips (1835–1893), 1227
Brown, H. Rap (1943–  ), 1889
Brown, Harold (1927–  ), 400
Browne, Charles Farrar. See Ward, Artemus.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806–1861), 1233
Browning, Robert (1812–1889), 70011421840
Brownlow, Walter P. (1851–1910), 299
Bryan, William Jennings (1860–1925), 2777615731752 letter to Andrew Carnegie, 1332
Bryant, William Cullen (1794–1878), 18292092
Bryce, James, 1st Viscount Bryce (1838–1922), 3171416
Brydges Willyams, Sarah, letter from Benjamin Disraeli, 1319
Buchan, Sir John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (1875–1940), 414853
Buck, Pearl Sydenstricker (1892–1973), 19
Buckle, Henry Thomas (1821–1862), 393
Buddha. See Siddhrtha Gautama.
Burford, Anne M. (1942–  ), 1969
Burke, Edmund (1729–1797), 12028034234448350756059559669477377479481694810281029105010531082141717151765178719112086
Burnet, Dana (1888–1962), 457
Burnham, Daniel Hudson (1846–1912), 1360
Burns, Robert (1759–1796), 172
Bush, Vannevar (1890–1974), 708
Bush-Brown, Louise (1896?–1973), 458
Butler, Smedley D. (1881–1940), 1912
Butterfield, Herbert (1900–1979), 2241361
Byrnes, James Francis (1879–1972), 1657091756
Byron, George Noel Gordon, Lord (1788–1824), 1459
Calhoun, John Caldwell (1782–1850), 300103818491985
Calonne, Charles-Alexandre de (1734–1802), 1183
Campbell, Mrs. Patrick (Beatrice Stella Tanner Campbell) (1865–1940), 8951707
Camus, Albert (1913–1960), 190556
Cannon, Clarence (1879–1964), quoting an unknown author, 277
Cannon, Joseph Gurney (1836–1926), 11525126028130893210841137137314181437
Cardozo, Benjamin Nathan (1870–1938), 999
Carlyle, Thomas (1795–1881), 4541560671071110331034114316912024 quoting Oliver Cromwell, 1035
Carman, William Bliss (1861–1929), 585
Carnegie, Andrew (1835–1919), letter from William Jennings Bryan, 1332
Carnot, Lazare-Nicolas-Marguerite (1753–1823), letter from Napoleon I, 744
Carrington, Edward (1748–1810), letters from Thomas Jefferson, 6191245
Carroll, Lewis (pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson 1832–1898), 9499501650167818112019
Carter, Jimmy (1934–  ), 52610851486 eulogy for Hubert H. Humphrey, 1697 quoting Walter Lippmann, 1605
Cary, Lucius, 2d Viscount Falkland. See Falkland.
Cassidy, Henry Clarence (1910–  ), letter from Joseph Stalin, 2068
Castro, Fidel (1926–  ), 39
Catchings, Thomas C. (1847–1927), letter from Grover Cleveland, 139
Cecil, George W. (1891–1970), 1823
Cecil, Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne. See Salisbury, Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3d Marquis of.
Celler, Emanuel (1888–1981), letter from Richard Milhous Nixon, 893
Chamberlain, Neville (1869–1940), 2050
Chapman, George (1559?–1634), 607
Chapman, John Jay (1862–1933), 1745
Chardin, Pierre Teilhard de. See Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre.
The Charleston Mercury, 559
Chase, Salmon Portland (1808–1873), quoting Abraham Lincoln, 1269
Chateaubriand, François René, vicomte de (1768–1848), 2075