More than 150 years after its original publication, Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations has been completely revised and updated for its eighteenth edition. Bartlett’s showcases a sweeping survey of world history, from the times of ancient Egyptians to present day.

New authors include Warren Buffett, the Dalai Lama, Bill Gates, David Foster Wallace, Emily Post, Steve Jobs, Jimi Hendrix, Paul Krugman, Hunter S. Thompson, Jon Stewart, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, Barack Obama, Che Guevara, Randy Pausch, Desmond Tutu, Julia Child, Fran Leibowitz, Harper Lee, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Patti Smith, William F. Buckley, and Robert F. Kennedy.

In the classic Bartlett’s tradition, the book offers readers and scholars alike a vast, stunning representation of those words that have influenced and molded our language and culture.

Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations has gone digital.

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For more than a century, Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations has been an indispensable resource for quotes for scholarly and casual readers alike. Along with our newly updated 18th edition, we’re proud to announce that — for the first time — Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations is available as a searchable and shareable app.