Dictionary of Foreign Quotations

Here are the answers, not only to such famous questions but for anyone who comes across a foreign language quotation in a book or a newspaper and can't quite make out what it means, or wonders who said it. Here is rescue for anybody with a half-remembered foreign quotation nagging at the back of his mind.

This Dictionary, in a new and enlarged edition, is a jewel-box of wit and wisdom (and sometimes folly), of epigrams and apophthegms, elegance and acerbity. Learn, or be reminded, who first talked about a 'Fifth Column', what kind of a United Europe General de Gaulle envisaged; recall Galileo's obstinacy and Horace's lapidary brilliance; compare Wittgenstein's intellectual austerity with Nazi grandiloquence (Ein Reich, ein Volk, ein Fuhrer!); meet a multitude of interesting things, from the origin of the word 'sardonic' to the inscription on a Roman military standard.