Motivational Quotes

Quotations

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

Best Quotes about Quotations

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Brendan Francis

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

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

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

Life itself is a quotation.

Jorge Luis Borges

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

Malcolm, Janet

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

Doctor Who

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

Gates, W. I. E.

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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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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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Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Simeon Strunsky

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

Orson Welles

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

Talmud, The

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

David H. Comins

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

Ambrose Bierce

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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I quote others in order to better express myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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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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Our best thoughts come from others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Robert Benchley

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

Cross, Amanda

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Edwin P. Whipple

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A short saying oft contains much wisdom.

Sophocles

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

Peacock, Thomas Love