Motivational Quotes

Quotations

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

- Rudyard Kipling

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

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

Talmud, The

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

Brendan Francis

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

Cross, Amanda

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.

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

Hassan, Ihab

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

Robert Chapman

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

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

Samuel Johnson

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Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass of quotable stuff he never quotes, but an even vaster realm of which he has never heard.

Davies, Robertson

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

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

Ambrose Bierce

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

C. E. Montague

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

Robert Benchley

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

Orson Welles

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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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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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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 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

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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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What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

Mark Twain

31.

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Simeon Strunsky

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Life itself is a quotation.

Jorge Luis Borges

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

Edwin P. Whipple

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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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Our best thoughts come from others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Anatole France

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

Morely, John

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

Robert M. Hamilton

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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 not only use all the brains I have but all I can borrow.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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I didn't really say everything I said.

Yogi Berra

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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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A short saying oft contains much wisdom.

Sophocles

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

Gates, W. I. E.