The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Every quotation a nineteenth-century speaker or writer might want, grouped under its subject, with the author, the date and the source given as exactly as Hoyt could manage.

About the Book

1896Published
J. K. HoytAuthor
991Subjects

J. K. Hoyt’s Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations arranged its material the way a working writer needs it: by subject, so that everything ever said worth repeating about Absence, or Courage, or Money, sits together.

It gives names, dates and nationality of the quoted authors, with English, Latin and modern foreign sections and a concordance — and it traced its Shakespearian quotations back to the scene and line.

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This site reproduces the complete text of the original 1896 edition, digitized page by page from the original printing. The book is in the public domain.

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