Reference Shelf

Oxford Reference Online: Sources include the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, and Oxford collections of modern and scientific quotations. "Quick" or "Advanced" searching. Search by topic, people, dates, or full-text. Available to UT (Knoxville campus) faculty, staff, and students.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations: The 10th edition of Bartlett's (1919) provides an alphabetical list of authors, a chronological list of primary authors, and a searchable index of quotes. This is an authoritative source for quotations, but keep in mind that it does not contain modern-day quotations.
Book of Famous Quotes: Quotations arranged by category or alphabetically by the first word in the first sentence.
The Columbia World of Quotations: 1996 edition. An authoritative collection of 65,000 essential quotations. Entries from more than 5,000 authors and speakers are multiply classified into 6,500 subjects.
Quoteland: Search for specific quotations by phrase, author, or topic.
Simpson's Contemporary Quotations: 1988 edition. The most notable quotations 1950-1988. Author, subject, and keyword searching.
Yahoo: Reference: Quotations: Alphabetical list of links to quotations on specific subjects and personal collections of quotations.
Librarians' Internet Index: Choose the "Quotations" category to find additional links to a wide variety of collections of quotes.

reference shelf graphic

Page Maintained by:

Lana S. Dixon
Health Sciences
Reference Librarian
ldixon@utk.edu
974-4700