Lex Scripta: Books of Quotations

Quotations Search Output is currently limited to the first 50 quotes which match the search key.
Quotes will be found in the quote file selected above.
See the Quote file list for a description of each collection.

General Collections of Quotations
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Searchable resources include Bloomsbury Biographical Dictionary of Quotations, Bloomsbury Thematic Dictionary of Quotations, and Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.
Quotez
Searchable database of over 13,500 quotations.
The Quotations Site
Indexed and Fully Searchable.
Aphorisms Galore
Search by author or category.
The Quotations Page
Searchable database, with "quote of the day", "quote of the week", etc.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
"Passages, Phrases and Proverbs traded to their Sources".
quoteland.com
"Quotations on every topic, by every author, in every fashion possible".
Quotations
A collection of quotations, not searchable, but divided into intuitive categories.
The Thought for Today Quotation Archive
Fully searchable.
The Quotations Archive
"a comprehensive, searchable database of general purpose quotations".
A Journey into Word
An "eclectic collection of mostly uncommon quotations".
A Short Dictionary of Scientific Quotations
An amusing collection, including such treasures as "I think there's a world market for about five computers." (Thomas Watson, Founder of IBM); "Space travel is utter bilge." (Richard Woolley, U.K. Astronomer Royal, in 1956); and "No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company." (Alan Turing, inventer of the computer, to the staff of the company funding his research).
Medicine in Quotations Online
Mainly serious, but some more humorous quotations, like: "Homeopathy, n. A school of medicine midway between Allopathy and Christian Science. To the last both the others are distinctly inferior, for Christian Science will cure imaginary diseases, and they can not." (Ambrose Bierce, 1906).
Quotations from Popular Culture
An FTP (File Transfer Protocol) collection of quotations from contemporary politicians, television, cinema, and other popular sources.
IMDb Movie/TV Quotes Browser
Searchable database of well-known quotations from cinema and television.

Quotations by Author
Quotations by Writers
Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, Winston Churchill, William Faulkner, Maya Angelou, Herman Melville, T.S. Eliot, George Sand, Arthur Miller, Alice Walker, W. Somerset Maugham, H.L. Mencken, Abraham Lincoln, Aristotle, James Baldwin, Albert Camus, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry James, D.H. Lawrence, Thomas Hardy, Edgar Allan Poe.
Bartlett's Familiar Shakespearan Quotations
Sorted by Plays.
Shakespearean Insults
Be offensive with style.
Daily Dose of Dickens
Searchable database of over 400 Dickensian quotations.
The Chronicles of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Quotations from the creator of Sherlock Holmes, searchable by Topic, Title or Word
Directory of Mark Twain's maxims, quotations, and various opinions
Extensive alphabetical listing.
About.com's Albert Einstein Quotations
Links to a number of smaller collections of Einstein quotations.
Thomas Jefferson on Politics and Government
Over 2700 quotations from the writings of Thomas Jefferson.
Words of our American Founding Fathers
Includes Adams, Franklin, Madison, Jefferson and Washington.
Abraham Lincoln's Quotes
A small but selective collection.
Famous Quotes and Stories of Winston Churchill
With links to the full text of each speech; also Churchillian apocrypha.
Great Quotations by Gough Whitlam
"Men and Women of Australia ...Well may we say ...".
Paul Keating Insults
Masterpieces of invective from the former Australian Prime Minister.
Quotations of Frank Lloyd Wright
The great architect once remarked that "Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change". The truth of this observation is demonstrated by many of his reported remarks, which are accessible here.
Pooh Quotes
Quotes from A.A. Milne's loveable character, Winnie-the-Pooh, and friends.

Quotations Links
LinkBank: Quotation Links
Australia All Over: Reference: Quotations
Web Wombat: Reference: Quotations
Starting Page: Famous Quotes and Quotations
Guide to Philosophy on the Internet: Philosophy Quotations
About.com Quotations
University of Pennsylvania Library Reference Shelf: Quotations
Yahoo! Reference > Quotations