Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: Cleopatra's Nose -- Introduction: Verbal Gems and Treasuries -- PART I: The Market for Quotations -- ONE: What Is an Anthology? -- TWO: Quotationality and Former Quotations -- PART II: The Nature of Quotations -- THREE: What Is a Quotation? -- FOUR: Making a Quotation -- FIVE: What Is a Misquotation? -- SIX: More Than Words Alone -- SEVEN: Mis-misquotations -- EIGHT: How and Where Quotations Live -- PART III: Quotations of Occasion -- NINE: Famous Last Words -- TEN: Epitaphs -- PART IV: Literary Composition and Decomposition -- ELEVEN: The Anthology as Literature -- TWELVE: Whole and Part -- Conclusion -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.