Motivational Quotes

Quotations

I quote others in order to better express myself.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Quotations

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

Our best thoughts come from others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Malcolm, Janet

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

H. L. Mencken

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

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.

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

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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Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

Debord, Guy

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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 book of quotations . . . can never be complete.

Robert M. Hamilton

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Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Simeon Strunsky

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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 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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Life itself is a quotation.

Jorge Luis Borges

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

Edward Young

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Gates, W. I. E.

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

Seneca

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I didn't really say everything I said.

Yogi Berra

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

Rudyard Kipling

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

Doctor Who

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

Robert Benchley

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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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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The habit some writers indulge in of perpetual quotation is one it behooves lovers of good literature to protest against, for it is an insidious habit which in the end must cloud the stream of thought, or at least check spontaneity. If it be true that le style c'est l homme, what is likely to happen if l homme is for ever eking out his own personality with that of some other individual?

Smyth, Dame Ethel

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Ambrose Bierce

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I quote others in order to better express myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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