Quotation Links

Seneca said,"I shall never be ashamed to quote a bad author if what he says is good." Well, Seneca didn't have access to the Internet but you do. There are hundreds of thousands of quotation sites dedicated to every topic imaginable. These are some of my favorites. Many sites, like All About.com, will lead you to countless others. After a short time I'm sure you'll find quotes; both good and bad.


The mother of all quote compilations can be found at About.com. This "Human Internet" guide site has thousands of links to quite sites, books and other related information.

Annabelle's Quotation Guide has a search engine to browse by topic or author. There's lots of other fun quote related links on this site.

Bartleby.com What list of quotation sources would be complete without Bartlett's quotation? According to their site, "This tenth edition of 1919 contains over 11,000 searchable quotations and was the first new edition of John Bartlett˙s corpus to be published after his death in 1905Üthe new editor, however, choosing more to supplement than revise the work of the first name in quotations." The site includes a chronologic index of authors , an alphabetic index of authors and a concordance index to quotations..

BrainyQuote.com is a searchable database filled with 35,000 quotes by 8,000 authors You may also browse by the author's last name.

The Comedy Zone Need to find some funny quotes? Need to find them quickly? Visit Funny Quotes at the Comedy Zone. The quotes are listed by topic in this attractive, easy-to-read site. A searchable database would make the site even better, but if you need humorous quotes, visit The Comedy Zone.

Cyber Nation has a large database containing over 13,000 quotations indexed by subject. There's not a search engine but you'll still want to visit the site.

Movies can be an excellent source for finding the right quote for your project. The Internet Movie Database is a huge site with over 11 million hits a week. Did Humphrey Bogart really say, "Play it again, Sam?" Find out by typing those words into the search box. Make sure you pull down the menu to search. I'll let you in on a secret. Bogart's character never said what has become a popular misquotation. Neither did Ingrid Bergman. The Internet Movie Database will show you similar lines from that movie. This is a fantastic site for movie quotations.

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