Bestseller Phrases

Phrases

• 1066 And All That: A Memorable History Of England (W. C. Sellar book)
• A Bouquet Of Barbed Wire (Andrea Newman book)
• A Brief History Of Time (Stephen Hawking book)
• A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens book)
• A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess book and Stanley Kubrick movie)
• A Fatal Inversion (Barbara Vine book)
• A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Future: Twists And Turns, And Lessons Learned (Michael J. Fox book)
• A Journey To The Center Of The Earth (Jules Verne book)
• A Kestrel For A Knave (Barry Hines book)
• A Murder Is Announced (Agatha Christie book)
• A Passage To India (E. M. Forster book and David Lean movie)
• A Perfect Spy (John Le Carre book)
• A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man (James Joyce book)
• A Prayer For Owen Meany (John Irving book)
• A Room With A View (E M Forster book)
• A Short History Of Nearly Everything (Bill Bryson book)
• A Short History Of Tractors In Ukrainian (Marina Lewycka book)
• A Streetcar Named Desire (Tennessee Williams play)
• A Suitable Boy (Vikram Seth book)
• A Tale Of Two Cities (Charles Dickens book)
• A Thousand Splendid Suns (Khaled Hosseine book)
• A Town Like Alice (Nevil Shute book)
• A boy's best friend is his mother (Psycho)
• A dog is a man's best friend
• A girl's best friend
• Adolf Hitler: My Part In His Downfall (Spike Milligan book)
• All Fun And Games Until Somebody Loses An Eye (Christopher Brookmyer book)
• All Quiet On The Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque book and WWII movie)
• All the best
• All's for the best in the best of all possible worlds (Voltaire quotation - in Candide)
• Always have your nose in a book
• America's best record (Puritan Records advertising slogan)
• And The Band Played On (Randy Shilts book)
• And Then There Were None (Agatha Christie book)
• Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt book)
• Animal Farm (George Orwell book)
• Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy book)
• Anne Of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery book)
• Around The World In Eighty Days (Jules Verne book)
• Art Of War (Sun Tzu book)
• As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner book)
• As many chins as a Chinese phone book
• Attack is the best form of defence
• Be the best (British Army advertising slogan)
• Bell, book and candle
• Best bib and tucker
• Best friend
• Best friends forever
• Best in class
• Best in show
• Best of all
• Best of breed
• Best of friends
• Best practice
• Best stop now
• Black Beauty (Anna Sewell book)
• Bleak House (Charles Dickens book)
• Book him
• Book him Danno (A catchphrase from Hawaii Five-O)
• Book learning
• Book worm
• Brave New World (Aldous Huxley book)
• Breakfast At Tiffany's (Truman Capote book)
• Breakfast Of Champions (Kurt Vonnegut book)
• Breast is best (slogan of breastfeeding campaign)
• Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh book)
• Bright Lights, Big City (Jay Mcinerney book)
• Bring out the Hellmann's, and bring out the best (Hellmann's Mayonnaise advertising slogan)
• Bring out your best (Bud Light advertising slogan)
• Bring to book
• Bring your A game (perform to your best ability)
• Brought to book
• Build A Better Life By Stealing Office Supplies (Dilbert)
• By the book
• Captain Corelli's Mandolin (Louis de Bernieres book)
• Captain Underpants And The Invasion Of The Incredibly Naughty Cafeteria Ladies From Outer Space (Dav Pilkey book)
• Captain Underpants And The Perilous Plot Of Professor Poopypants (Dav Pilkey book)
• Captain Underpants And The Wrath Of The Wicked Wedgie Woman (Dav Pilkey book)
• Catch 22 (Joseph Heller book)
• Charlie And The Chocolate Factory (Roald Dahl book)
• Closed book
• Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell book)
• Coffee at its best (Nescafe Gold Blend advertising slogan)
• Cold Comfort Farm (Stella Gibbons book)
• Crack a book
• Crime And Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky book)
• Crooked House (Agatha Christie book)
• David Copperfield (Charles Dickens book)
• Dead Man Walking (Helen Prejean book)
• Death On The Nile (Agatha Christie book)
• Death On The Orient Express (Agatha Christie book)
• Diamonds are a girl's best friend
• Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? (Philip K. Dick book)
• Do your level best
• Doing what we do best (American Airlines advertising slogan)
• Don't just book it, Thomas Cook it (Thomas Cook advertising slogan)
• Dress for success
• Dressed For Success (song by Roxette)
• Drink Camp - its the best! (Camp Coffee advertising slogan)
• Driven by success
• East, west, home's best
• Eats, Shoots And Leaves (Lynne Truss book)
• Even Cowgirls Get The Blues (Tom Robbins book)
• Even your best friend won't tell you (Lifebuoy Soap advertising slogan)
• Even your best friends won't tell you (Listerine Mouthwash advertising slogan)
• Every trick in the book
• Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask (David Reuben book)
• Evil Under The Sun (Agatha Christie book)
• Experience is the best teacher
• Far From The Madding Crowd (Thomas Hardy book)
• Father Knows Best (American TV Show)
• Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson book)
• Fifty Shades of Grey (E L James book)
• First Among Equals (Jeffrey Archer book)
• For the best
• Ford is the Best in Texas (Ford Cars advertising slogan)
• Give it your best shot
• Go by the book
• Goodnight Mister Tom book by Michelle Magorian
• Great Expectations (Charles Dickens book)
• Guards! Guards! (Terry Pratchett book)
• Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets (J. K. Rowling book)
• Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban (J. K. Rowling book)
• Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone (J. K. Rowling book)
• Have your best interests at heart
• His Dark Materials (Philip Pullman book)
• His life's an open book
• Hit it out of the park (A baseball expression denoting a complete or spectacular success)
• Honesty is the best policy
• Hope for the best
• How To Win Friends And Influence People (Dale Carnegie book)
• I Capture The Castle (Dodie Smith book)
• I can read you like a book
• It was the best of times: it was the worst of times (the opening line of A Tale Of Two Cities)
• It's all done in the best possible taste (A catchphrase from Kenny Everett)
• Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte book)
• Kane And Abel (Jeffrey Archer book)
• Kelloggs, because your best days start with breakfast (Kelloggs advertising slogan)
• Knock it out of the park (A baseball expression denoting a complete or spectacular success)
• Knowing me, knowing you, it's the best I can do (ABBA lyric)
• Laughter is the best medicine
• Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Pierre-Ambroise-Francois Choderlos De Laclos book)
• Little Women (Louisa May Alcott book)
• Little black book
• Living well is the best revenge
• Look your best while you wear our least (Jockey Shorts advertising slogan)

• Lord Of The Flies (William Golding book)
• Lord Of The Rings (J R R Tolkien book)
• Make the best of a bad job
• Making the sky the best place on Earth (Air France advertising slogan)
• Man's best friend
• Memoirs Of A Geisha (Arthur Golden book)
• Mother knows best
• Move in the best circles
• Mr. Midshipman Easy (Frederick Marryat book)
• Never judge a book by its cover
• Next to myself, I like BVD best (BVD Underwear advertising slogan)
• Night Watch (Terry Pratchett book)
• Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell book)
• Not best pleased
• Notes From The Underground (Fyodor Dostoevsky book)
• Nothing but the best
• Nothing succeeds like success
• Noughts And Crosses (book series by Malorie Blackman)
• Of Mice And Men (John Steinbeck book)
• On The Origin Of Species (Charles Darwin book)
• On The Road (Jack Kerouac book)
• On your best behaviour
• One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez book)
• One for the book
• One's level best
• Only the best for the Captain's table (Birdseye advertising slogan)
• Open book
• Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read (Groucho Marx line)
• Play it by the book
• Probably the best lager in the World (Carlsberg advertising slogan)
• Put your best foot forward
• Recipe for success
• Revenge is a dish best served cold
• Roaring success
• Round Ireland With A Fridge (Tony Hawks book)
• Second best
• Second thoughts are best
• Simply The Best (Tina Turner song)
• Simply the best there is (Britvic advertising slogan)
• Six of the best
• Some of our best men are women (United States Army advertising slogan)
• Strike out swinging (A baseball expression meaning to fail while giving it your best effort)
• Success breeds success
• Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan
• Sunday best
• Surely the best tactic (Tic Tac Candy advertising slogan)
• Swallows And Amazons (children's adventure story by Arthur Ransome)
• Sweet smell of success
• Sweet taste of success
• Tailored for success
• Talking Book (Stevie Wonder album)
• Tess Of The D'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy book)
• The Age Of Reason (Jean Paul Sartre book)
• The Art Of The Deal (Donald Trump slogan and book title)
• The BFG - Big Friendly Giant (Roald Dahl book)
• The Best Bad Girl on TV (Nickname of Cloris Leachman)
• The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas (Burt Reynolds / Dolly Parton movie)
• The Best Second Banana in the Business (Nickname of Art Carney)
• The Best Years Of Our Lives (William Wyler movie)
• The Best never rest (Ford Trucks advertising slogan)
• The Brockton Blockbuster (Nickname of Rocky Marciano)
• The Buddha Of Suburbia (Hanif Kureishi book)
• The Catcher in the Rye (J D Salinger book)
• The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas book)
• The Day Of The Jackal (Frederick Forsyth book)
• The Devil Wears Prada (Lauren Weisberger book)
• The Devil has all the best tunes
• The Devil's Dictionary (Ambrose Bierce book)
• The Famous Five (characters in Enid Blyton's series of children's book)
• The French Have A Word For It (Josh Lanyon book)
• The Garden Of Eden (Ernest Hemingway book)
• The Ghost In The Machine (Arthur Koestler book)
• The Girl Of My Best Friend (Elvis Presley song)
• The Go-Between (L. P. Hartley book)
• The God Of Small Things (Arundhati Roy book)
• The Godfather (Mario Puzo book)
• The Good Book
• The Great Gatsby (F Scott Fitzgerald book)
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams book)
• The Hobbit (J R R Tokien book)
• The Hound Of The Baskervilles (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle book)
• The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins book)
• The Hypochondriac's Guide To Life And Death (Gene Weingarten book)
• The Importance Of Being Earnest (Oscar Wilde book)
• The Jungle Book (Disney cartoon movie)
• The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat And Other Clinical Tales (Oliver Sacks book)
• The Mirror Cracked From Side To Side (Agatha Christie book title)
• The Name Of The Rose (Umberto Eco book)
• The Odyssey (Homer book)
• The Picture Of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde book)
• The Pilgrim's Progress (John Bunyan book)
• The Princess Diaries (Meg Cabot book)
• The Purloined Letter (Edgar Allan Poe book)
• The Rape Of The Lock (Alexander Pope book)
• The Riddle Of The Sands (Erskine Childers book)
• The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett book)
• The Story Of Tracy Beaker (children's story by Jacqueline Wilson)
• The Tenderness Of Wolves (Stef Penney book)
• The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCollough book)
• The Three Musketeers (Alexandre Dumas book)
• The Wind in the Willows (children's book by Kenneth Grahame)
• The Woman In White (Wilkie Collins book)
• The best a man can get (Gillette advertising slogan)
• The best defence is a good offence
• The best is the enemy of the good
• The best is yet to come
• The best laid plans
• The best laid schemes of mice and men
• The best of British
• The best of British luck
• The best of both worlds
• The best part of waking up is Folgers in your cup (Folgers Coffee advertising slogan)
• The best seat in the house (Jockey Shorts advertising slogan)
• The best that money can buy
• The best thing since sliced bread
• The best things in life are free
• The best to you each morning (Kelloggs advertising slogan)
• The best tyres in the world have Goodyear written all over them (Goodyear Tyres advertising slogan)
• The best way of expressing your intelligence (Zenith Data Systems advertising slogan)
• The best way to get music out of your system (Philips advertising slogan)
• The brightest and the best
• The first time is never the best (Campari advertising slogan)
• The good is the enemy of the best
• The original and the best
• The power to be your best (Apple Computer advertising slogan)
• Thousands of possibilities, get yours (Best Buy advertising slogan)
• Through The Looking Glass, And What Alice Found There (Lewis Carroll book)
• Throw the book at someone
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (John Le Carre book)
• Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson book)
• Turn on the fun (Best Buy advertising slogan)
• Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray book)
• Vicky Angel (children's book by Jacqueline Wilson)
• War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy book)
• Watership Down (Richard Adams book)
• We Need To Talk About Kevin (Lionel Shriver book)
• We're tobacco men not medicine men. Old Gold cures just one thing. The World's Best Tobacco (Old Gold Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Who's got the best darn burgers in the whole wide world? (Burger King and I advertising slogan)
• Winnie the Pooh (children's book by A A Milne)
• With the best will in the world
• Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte book)
• You can't tell a book by looking at its cover
• You're As Good As The Best And Better Than The Rest (Tina Turner song)
• You've seen the rest, now try the best
• Your best bet
• Your best bet for a fuller flavour (Carling Black Label advertising slogan)