Motivational Quotes

Quotations

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Quotations

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

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

Our best thoughts come from others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Talmud, The

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 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

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

I quote others in order to better express myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Ambrose Bierce

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

Samuel Johnson

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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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Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

Hesketh Pearson

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

Baldwin, James

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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Great speeches have always had great soundbites. The problem now is that the young technicians who put together speeches are paying attention only to the soundbite, not to the text as a whole, not realizing that all great soundbites happen by accident, which is to say, all great soundbites are yielded up inevitably, as part of the natural expression of the text. They are part of the tapestry, they aren't a little flower somebody sewed on.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Andre Malraux

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

Fadiman, Clifton

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

Robert Benchley

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Seneca

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

Robert M. Hamilton

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Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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A short saying oft contains much wisdom.

Sophocles

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

Peacock, Thomas Love

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

George Bernard Shaw

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Life itself is a quotation.

Jorge Luis Borges

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