Dictionary of Foreign Quotations - Hardcover

What did Mussolini actually say about making the trains run on time? Did Marie Antoinette really advise the poor to eat cake?
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.

Anthony Lejeune read Classics at Balliol College, Oxford, where he was an exhibitioner in Greek.