Book of quotations
It would be wrong to attribute a quote by Bernard Shaw to John Bartlett just because Bartlett put the quote in his book of quotations, right? We still need to give Bernard Shaw his props.
Use the name of the author of the quote within your text and the editor and page # in parentheses:
As Bernard Shaw quipped, “All great truths began as blasphemies” (Bartlett 145).
What the Works Cited page looks like:
Bartlett, John, comp. Familiar Quotations, 10th ed, rev. and enl. by Nathan Haskell Dole. Boston: Little, Brown, 1919; Bartleby.com, 2000. <http://www.bartleby.com>
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Quote Websites are a little bit of a different deal. They are not generally considered as reliable as published reference sources like Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.
Section 6.4.7 of the MLA Handbook reads:
Whenever you can, take material from the original source, not a secondhand one. Sometimes, however, only an indirect source is available – for example, someone’s published account of another’s spoken remarks. If what you quote or paraphrase is itself a quotation, put the abbreviation qtd . in ("quoted in") before the indirect source you cite in your parenthetical reference.
Example:
As famous playwright George Bernard Shaw quipped, "All great truths began as blasphemies" (qtd. in Goodreads).
What the Works Cited Page looks like:
Goodreads. Goodreads, Inc. 2012. Web. 5 Dec. 2011. <http://www.goodreads.com/>
Use the name of the author of the quote within your text and the editor and page # in parentheses:
As Bernard Shaw quipped, “All great truths began as blasphemies” (Bartlett 145).
What the Works Cited page looks like:
Bartlett, John, comp. Familiar Quotations, 10th ed, rev. and enl. by Nathan Haskell Dole. Boston: Little, Brown, 1919; Bartleby.com, 2000. <http://www.bartleby.com>
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Quote Websites are a little bit of a different deal. They are not generally considered as reliable as published reference sources like Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.
Section 6.4.7 of the MLA Handbook reads:
Whenever you can, take material from the original source, not a secondhand one. Sometimes, however, only an indirect source is available – for example, someone’s published account of another’s spoken remarks. If what you quote or paraphrase is itself a quotation, put the abbreviation qtd . in ("quoted in") before the indirect source you cite in your parenthetical reference.
Example:
As famous playwright George Bernard Shaw quipped, "All great truths began as blasphemies" (qtd. in Goodreads).
What the Works Cited Page looks like:
Goodreads. Goodreads, Inc. 2012. Web. 5 Dec. 2011. <http://www.goodreads.com/>