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Quotations

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Best Quotes about Quotations

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether.

Alfred North Whitehead

The essence of a quote is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying.

Morely, John

I pick my favorite quotation and store them in my mind as ready armor, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.

Burns, Robert

A book of quotations . . . can never be complete.

Robert M. Hamilton

Quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara... are as germane to our highly technological, computerized society as a stagecoach on a jet runway at Kennedy airport.

Alinsky, Saul

When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

Anatole France

Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Simeon Strunsky

What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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A short saying oft contains much wisdom.

Sophocles

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Our best thoughts come from others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

Baldwin, James

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Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

Benjamin, Walter

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The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.

Dan Quayle

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A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.

Brendan Francis

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A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished.

Talmud, The

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I quote others in order to better express myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

Ambrose Bierce

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Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.

Gates, W. I. E.

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Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass of quotable stuff he never quotes, but an even vaster realm of which he has never heard.

Davies, Robertson

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Next to being witty yourself, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

Alfred North Whitehead

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I must claim the quoter's privilege of giving only as much of the text as will suit my purpose, said Tan-Chun. If I told you how it went on, I should end up by contradicting myself!

Cao Xueqin

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He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.

David H. Comins

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He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

Rudyard Kipling

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When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, and opening quotation is a symphony precluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

Seneca

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Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have not the time nor means to get more.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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He wrapped himself in quotations -- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

Kipling, Rudyard

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The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.

Robert Benchley

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I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied,'Verify your quotations.'

Sir Winston Churchill

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What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

Mark Twain

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Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

Debord, Guy

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Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecting, as it were... in a world that is well on its way to becoming one vast quarry, the collector becomes someone engaged in a pious work of salvage. The course of modern history having already sapped the traditions and shattered the living wholes in which precious objects once found their place, the collector may now in good conscience go about excavating the choicer, more emblematic fragments.

Sontag, Susan

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Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

Orson Welles

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Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.

Malcolm, Janet

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Great speeches have always had great soundbites. The problem now is that the young technicians who put together speeches are paying attention only to the soundbite, not to the text as a whole, not realizing that all great soundbites happen by accident, which is to say, all great soundbites are yielded up inevitably, as part of the natural expression of the text. They are part of the tapestry, they aren't a little flower somebody sewed on.

Noonan, Peggy

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The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

Benjamin Disraeli

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Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.

Edward Young

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What's the use of a good quotation if you can't change it?

Doctor Who

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There are two kinds of marriages -- where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the husband.

Odets, Clifford

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If you have any doubts that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to a volume of quotations, looking for women's names.

Elaine Gill

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Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

Hesketh Pearson

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To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations.

C. E. Montague

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Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.

Andre Malraux

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There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.

Pierre Bayle

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We rarely quote nowadays to appeal to authority... though we quote sometimes to display our sapience and erudition. Some authors we quote against. Some we quote not at all, offering them our scrupulous avoidance, and so make them part of our white mythology. Other authors we constantly invoke, chanting their names in cerebral rituals of propitiation or ancestor worship.

Hassan, Ihab

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Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?

Philip G. Hamerton