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- Wilson, Woodrow T.
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Best Quotes about Quotations

1.
Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.
Edward Young

2.
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

3.
A short saying oft contains much wisdom.
Sophocles

4.
I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.
Fadiman, Clifton

5.
Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
Orson Welles

6.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Alfred North Whitehead

7.
A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

8.
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

9.
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

10.
A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.
Robert Chapman

11.
There are two kinds of marriages -- where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the husband.
Odets, Clifford

12.
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
Samuel Johnson

13.
When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
Baldwin, James

14.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde

15.
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

16.
Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.
Debord, Guy

17.
Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
Andre Malraux

18.
That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.
Cross, Amanda

19.
He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
Rudyard Kipling

20.
I didn't really say everything I said.
Yogi Berra

21.
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

22.
I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
Seneca

23.
The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.
A book of quotations . . . can never be complete.
Robert M. Hamilton

25.
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

26.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Ambrose Bierce

27.
An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.
Edwin P. Whipple

28.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Hesketh Pearson

29.
A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished.
Talmud, The

30.
Life itself is a quotation.
Jorge Luis Borges

31.
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.

32.
To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations.
C. E. Montague

33.
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
Robert Benchley

34.
Next to being witty yourself, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
Bovee, Christian Nevell

35.
He wrapped himself in quotations -- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
Kipling, Rudyard

36.
When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
Anatole France

37.
A book that furnishes no quotations is no book -- it is a plaything.
Peacock, Thomas Love

38.
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
H. L. Mencken

39.
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

40.
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

41.
One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats --and one always secretes too much jelly.
Woolf, Virginia

42.
I quote others in order to better express myself.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

43.
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

44.
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

45.
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
David H. Comins

46.
The essence of a quote is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying.
Morely, John

47.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.

48.
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

49.
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

50.
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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