Motivational Quotes

Quotations

That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.

- Cross, Amanda

Best Quotes about Quotations

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

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

Robert Benchley

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.

Marlene Dietrich

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

Roux, Joseph

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

Orson Welles

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

Dan Quayle

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

Benjamin Disraeli

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Simeon Strunsky

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Rudyard Kipling

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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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I didn't really say everything I said.

Yogi Berra

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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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In the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse.

Waugh, Evelyn

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After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.

H. L. Mencken

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I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things.

Dorothy Parker

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

Andre Malraux

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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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An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.

Edwin P. Whipple

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Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear.

Hassan, Ihab

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It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Doctor Who

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A short saying oft contains much wisdom.

Sophocles

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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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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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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

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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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Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.

Samuel Johnson

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A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.

Robert Chapman

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

Samuel Johnson

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A book that furnishes no quotations is no book -- it is a plaything.

Peacock, Thomas Love

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I not only use all the brains I have but all I can borrow.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.

Selden, John

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

Robert M. Hamilton

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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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I quote others in order to better express myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

Debord, Guy

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

Seneca

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A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

Joseph Roux

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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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Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.

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Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.

Hesketh Pearson

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium.

Fowler, Henry W.