The concise dictionary of foreign quotations

"A browser's delight and useful too - here's the answer for anybody who comes across a foreign-language quotation in a newspaper article or a book, and can't quite make out what it means. Here's help for anybody with a half-remembered tag lurking at the back of his mind. Here are famous sayings, apposite sayings, in five European languages, accompanied by their translation into English and cross-indexed for easy reference." "The Concise Dictionary of Foreign Quotations contains over 3,000 entries, in Latin, French, German, Italian and Spanish, chosen by five editors, each widely read in the language concerned. The majority were included because they are, or should be, familiar, those an English reader seemed most likely to come across: a few, however, because they were unfamiliar but the editorial team thought them irresistible." "Literary quotations, political quotations, poetic thoughts, pungent comments, polished epigrams, shrewd perceptions - by everyone from Cicero to Sartre, from Goethe to Goering."--Jacket.