Motivational Quotes

Quotations

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

- Fadiman, Clifton

Best Quotes about Quotations

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

Robert Chapman

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

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

Rudyard Kipling

Life itself is a quotation.

Jorge Luis Borges

I quote others in order to better express myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Anatole France

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

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

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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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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I didn't really say everything I said.

Yogi Berra

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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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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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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

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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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Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

Debord, Guy

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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 think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.

Fadiman, Clifton

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

Doctor Who

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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.

Pearson, Hesketh

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Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

Hesketh Pearson

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The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Cross, Amanda

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Peacock, Thomas Love

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

Edward Young

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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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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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Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Simeon Strunsky

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

Andre Malraux

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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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Our best thoughts come from others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Orson Welles

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

Samuel Johnson

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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 often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Talmud, The

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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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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