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Reference Resources

Features resources helpful for ready-reference questions: when you need quick access to facts, definitions, statistics, biographical information, maps, and so on.

Recommended Print Quotation Sources

Chambers Dictionary of Quotations

Main Collection (Third Floor)

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

Main Collection (Third Floor)

Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations

Electronic Resource

Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

Electronic Resource

Oxford Essential Quotations

Electronic Resource

Routledge Dictionary of Latin Quotations

Electronic Resource

Simpson's Contemporary Quotations: The Most Notable Quotes from 1950 to the Present

Main Collection (Third Floor)

Yale Book of Quotations

Reference Collection (Second Floor)

Yale Book of Quotations

Electronic Resource

Quotation Sources

Quotation dictionaries typically organize quotations by author and subject.

Recommended Quotation Web Sites

Quotations at Bartleby.com
This site provides searchable access to Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (10th edition, 1919) and Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989).
Movie Quotes, Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
Quotations, Internet Public Library

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