The Quote Verifier: Who Said What, Where, and WhenSt. Martin's Publishing Group, 1. apr 2007 - 416 pages Our language is full of hundreds of quotations that are often cited but seldom confirmed. Ralph Keyes's The Quote Verifier considers not only classic misquotes such as "Nice guys finish last," and "Play it again, Sam," but more surprising ones such as "Ain't I a woman?" and "Golf is a good walk spoiled," as well as the origins of popular sayings such as "The opera ain't over till the fat lady sings," "No one washes a rented car," and "Make my day." |
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... remark is preserved, but its cadence is improved. Churchill's “blood, toil, tears, and sweat” becomes “blood, sweat ... remarks to be expressed spontaneously. More often we wander around the edges of what we're trying to say before ...
... remark does not appear in Roosevelt's autobiography, nor anywhere else that researchers have been able to discover. The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations cites a long-discredited source for their attribution of “Go west, young man, go ...
... remark while visiting England in 1930. Gandhi did not visit England in 1930. These are just a few of the reasons that accurate ascription of quotations is such a slippery slope of scholarship. If reputable works of reference can't ...
... remarks. Because the wording of quotations can vary, possible key words can vary too. That is why the comprehensive index at the end of this book includes several key words for most quotations. A separate name index provides another ...
... remark is generally thought to have been uttered by King Louis XV of France after his forces were defeated by those of Frederick the Great at the battle of Rossbach in 1757. Biographer Olivier Bernier calls the attribution “wholly ...
Contents
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BIBLIOGRAPHY | 259 |
SOURCE NOTES | 267 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 345 |
KEY WORD INDEX | 347 |
NAME INDEX | 375 |
SIDEBAR INDEX | 389 |