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Quotations & Speeches
American Rhetoric Online Speech Bank
It provides speeches. It also has an A-Z speech index and covers several subject areas. It has links to other speech sites on the Internet.
This site provides links to questions on English grammar, spelling, and usage, etc. The users could search the dictionary for words, names or quotations. It also offers help with writing.
This is a collection of passages, phrases, proverbs, etc., from ancient and modern literature. It contains over 11,000 searchable quotations.
The Columbia World of Quotations
The Columbia World of Quotations provides about 65,000 essential quotations, which represents the research of 154 experts. It also includes entries from more than 5,000 authors and speakers, classified into 6,500 subjects. Users could search full text, by author or category, or browse an alphabetical author index.
Douglass Archive to American Speeches
It provides several links to speeches, including presidential, keynotes, famous speeches, etc.
Provides ancient and modern quotations, proverbs, maxims, books excerpts. They are browsable by author, etc.
This site provides women's speeches around the world.
The site provides American historical speeches.
It contains movie quotes. It also lists the top ten IMDb quote pages.
The Quotation Archives provides a comprehensive, searchable database of general purpose quotations. Users can browse through the quotations by subject, alphabetically by author, or they can use the search engine to generate a listing of quotations containing selected keywords or by a certain author.
This site provides over 13,000 "great quotes of inspiration, to empower and motivate the user. The quotations are arranged by author or subject (over 900) and can be searched by keyword.
This site provides quotations, searchable by keywords, subjects, topics, etc. It also has links to rate quotations, discussion groups, etc.
This is the Yahoo's list of famous quotations. It provides links to several categories of famous quotations.