Q. Where can I find quotations said by famous people?

We have many ebooks and online dictionaries of famous quotations across different fields of study. These works are useful for finding the source of a quotation or researching quotations and for quotes you can use in your writing or presentations.

Ebooks and Online Dictionaries

ProQuest Ebook Central has several ebooks of quotations including:

• Civilization's Quotations: Life's Ideal
• Key Quotations in Sociology
• Hutchinson Dictionary of Quotations
• The Yale Book of Quotations
• The Cultural Theorist's Book of Quotations
• The Arden Dictionary of Shakespeare Quotations
• Medical Education: A Dictionary of Quotations
• The Founders on Religion: A Book of Quotations
• Historical Dictionary of Quotations in Cognitive Science: A Treasury of Quotations in Psychology, Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence
• In the Words of Frederick Douglass: Quotations from Liberty's Champion
• Quote/Unquote : Quotations on Freedom of Speech, Journalism, the News Media and a World or Words
• The Routledge Dictionary of Latin Quotations: The Illiterati's Guide to Latin Maxims, Mottoes, Proverbs, and Sayings

Britannica Academic database has the following collection of ebooks with quotations:

• Toaster's Handbook: Jokes, Stories, and Quotations
• The World's Best Poetry, Volume 10: Poetical Quotations 
• Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations 
• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations 
• Many Thoughts of Many Minds: A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age 

Print Books

• Bartlett's familiar Black quotations, Newark Library
• The Oxford dictionary of quotations, NY Midtown Library
• Oxford dictionary of modern quotations,  NY Midtown Library, Woodland Park Library
• Webster's dictionary of familiar quotations, NY Midtown Library
• The Concise Oxford dictionary of quotations, NY Midtown Library
• The speaker's quote book: over 4,500 illustrations and quotations for all occasions, Woodland Park Library
• Bartlett's Familiar quotations; a collection of passages, phrases, and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient and modern literature, Held at various libraries
• The Yale book of quotations, Middlesex Library

Websites

• BrainyQuote 
• ThoughtCo Quotations
• Furman University Mathematical Quotations Server
  Quotations related to mathematics.
• The Phrase Finder 
  Includes the meanings and origins of English idioms, phrases and sayings. 
• Wikiquote 
• Wikiquote: List of Common Misquotations 
  A list of commonly misquoted phrases.
• Wiktionary: English Proverbs
  The history of many common English phrases is provided, and some may include citations to the original source.
• Wiktionary: Proverbs by Language 
  Browse proverbs by languages other than English.