Elizabeth Knowles began her lexicographical career as a library researcher for A Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary. She worked on the 4th edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (1993) and has edited the 5th, 6th, 7th, and (current) 8th editions of the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1999, 2004, 2009, 2014). Her other editorial credits include What They Didn't Say: A Book of Misquotations (OUP, 2006), How to Read a Word (OUP, 2010), and the 1st and 2nd editions of the Little Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs (2009, 2016). She is a contributor to The Oxford History of Lexicography and The History of Oxford University Press, and was Editor of Dictionaries: the Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America, 2010-13.

Endlessly fascinating... Anyone with an interest in language will find this a book to treasure.

• Introduction 1: Overview 2: Chapter 2 3: How and Why We Quote 4: Appeals to Authority and Quotations as Code 5: Primary and Secondary Sources 6: Spicing them up with Learning and Latin 7: Quotations on the Move 8: Guarding Even our Enemies and in our Despair 9: They Never Said It 10: Appealing to CiceroConclusion

Elizabeth Knowles began her lexicographical career as a library researcher for A Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary. She worked on the 4th edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (1993) and has edited the 5th, 6th, 7th, and (current) 8th editions of the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1999, 2004, 2009, 2014). Her other editorial credits include What They Didn't Say: A Book of Misquotations (OUP, 2006), How to Read a Word (OUP, 2010), and the 1st and 2nd editions of the Little Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs (2009, 2016). She is a contributor to The Oxford History of Lexicography and The History of Oxford University Press, and was Editor of Dictionaries: the Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America, 2010-13.

Endlessly fascinating... Anyone with an interest in language will find this a book to treasure.

• Introduction 1: Overview 2: Chapter 2 3: How and Why We Quote 4: Appeals to Authority and Quotations as Code 5: Primary and Secondary Sources 6: Spicing them up with Learning and Latin 7: Quotations on the Move 8: Guarding Even our Enemies and in our Despair 9: They Never Said It 10: Appealing to CiceroConclusion

Elizabeth Knowles began her lexicographical career as a library researcher for A Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary. She worked on the 4th edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (1993) and has edited the 5th, 6th, 7th, and (current) 8th editions of the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1999, 2004, 2009, 2014). Her other editorial credits include What They Didn't Say: A Book of Misquotations (OUP, 2006), How to Read a Word (OUP, 2010), and the 1st and 2nd editions of the Little Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs (2009, 2016). She is a contributor to The Oxford History of Lexicography and The History of Oxford University Press, and was Editor of Dictionaries: the Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America, 2010-13.

Endlessly fascinating... Anyone with an interest in language will find this a book to treasure.

• Introduction 1: Overview 2: Chapter 2 3: How and Why We Quote 4: Appeals to Authority and Quotations as Code 5: Primary and Secondary Sources 6: Spicing them up with Learning and Latin 7: Quotations on the Move 8: Guarding Even our Enemies and in our Despair 9: They Never Said It 10: Appealing to CiceroConclusion