Motivational Quotes

Quotations

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

- Malcolm, Janet

Best Quotes about Quotations

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

Woolf, Virginia

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

Debord, Guy

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

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Robert M. Hamilton

A short saying oft contains much wisdom.

Sophocles

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

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Morely, John

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

Edwin P. Whipple

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

Ambrose Bierce

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Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.

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I quote others in order to better express myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Orson Welles

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

Rudyard Kipling

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Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

Hesketh Pearson

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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

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

Gates, W. I. E.

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

Andre Malraux

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

Seneca

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

Oscar Wilde

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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

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

David H. Comins

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

Baldwin, James

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

Robert Benchley

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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.

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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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Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Simeon Strunsky

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

Peacock, Thomas Love

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

Samuel Johnson

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