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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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Best Quotes about Quotations

1.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Hesketh Pearson

2.
I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
Seneca

3.
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

4.
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
Benjamin Disraeli

5.
Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.
Benjamin, Walter

6.
Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.
Debord, Guy

7.
A book of quotations . . . can never be complete.
Robert M. Hamilton

8.
When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
Baldwin, James

9.
Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear.
Hassan, Ihab

10.
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

11.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.

12.
Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
Andre Malraux

13.
Our best thoughts come from others.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.
Next to being witty yourself, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
Bovee, Christian Nevell

15.
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

16.
A book that furnishes no quotations is no book -- it is a plaything.
Peacock, Thomas Love

17.
One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats --and one always secretes too much jelly.
Woolf, Virginia

18.
To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations.
C. E. Montague

19.
A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.
Robert Chapman

20.
Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.
Malcolm, Janet

21.
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

22.
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

23.
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

24.
I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.
Fadiman, Clifton

25.
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

26.
A short saying oft contains much wisdom.
Sophocles

27.
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

28.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
Simeon Strunsky

29.
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

30.
Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
Orson Welles

31.
Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.
Samuel Johnson

32.
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
Samuel Johnson

33.
The essence of a quote is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying.
Morely, John

34.
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
H. L. Mencken

35.
There are two kinds of marriages -- where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the husband.
Odets, Clifford

36.
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

37.
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

38.
An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.
Edwin P. Whipple

39.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde

40.
A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
Brendan Francis

41.
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

42.
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

43.
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

44.
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

45.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
George Bernard Shaw

46.
What's the use of a good quotation if you can't change it?
Doctor Who

47.
Life itself is a quotation.
Jorge Luis Borges

48.
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

49.
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.
Pearson, Hesketh

50.
What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge


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