Motivational Quotes

Quotations

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

- Doctor Who

Best Quotes about Quotations

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Odets, Clifford

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

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

Rudyard Kipling

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

H. L. Mencken

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Brendan Francis

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

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

Ambrose Bierce

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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A short saying oft contains much wisdom.

Sophocles

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

Edward Young

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I never have found the perfect quote. At best I have been able to find a string of quotations which merely circle the ineffable idea I seek to express.

Caldwell O'Keefe

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The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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I didn't really say everything I said.

Yogi Berra

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Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

Hesketh Pearson

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

Hassan, Ihab

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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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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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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

William Feather

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

Seneca

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Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Simeon Strunsky

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Doctor Who

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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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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

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

Anatole France

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

Robert Benchley

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

Peacock, Thomas Love

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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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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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I quote others in order to better express myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Our best thoughts come from others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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