Familiar quotations a collection of passages phrases and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient and modern literature compiled by john bartlett this tenth edition of 1919 contains over 11000 searchable quotations and was the first new edition of john bartletts corpus to be published after his death in 1905 the new editor however . The resource bartletts familiar quotations a collection of passages phrases and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient and modern literature john bartlett justin kaplan general editor bartletts familiar quotations a collection of passages phrases and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient and modern. Sources in ancient bartletts familiar quotations a collection of passages phrases and familiar quotations a collection of passages phrases and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient and modern literature compiled by john bartlett this tenth edition of 1919 contains over 11000 searchable quotations and was the first new edition of john. About the book bartletts familiar quotations often simply called bartletts is an american reference work that is the longest lived and most widely distributed collection of quotations the book arranges its entries by author rather than by subject as many other quotation collections and enters the authors chronologically by date of birth . Familiar quotations a collection of passages phrases and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient and modern literature familiar quotations a collection of passages phrases and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient and modern literature bartlett john morison beck emily et al 9780333309179 amazoncom books skip to main content