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What's the use of a good quotation if you can't change it?
- Doctor Who
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Best Quotes about Quotations

1.
A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
Brendan Francis

2.
What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.
Mark Twain

3.
When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
Baldwin, James

4.
Next to being witty yourself, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
Bovee, Christian Nevell

5.
I not only use all the brains I have but all I can borrow.
Wilson, Woodrow T.

6.
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

7.
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
H. L. Mencken

8.
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

9.
I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.
Fadiman, Clifton

10.
He wrapped himself in quotations -- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
Kipling, Rudyard

11.
A short saying oft contains much wisdom.
Sophocles

12.
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

13.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
Simeon Strunsky

14.
Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.
Samuel Johnson

15.
A book of quotations . . . can never be complete.
Robert M. Hamilton

16.
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

17.
Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.
Debord, Guy

18.
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

19.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
George Bernard Shaw

20.
Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.
Malcolm, Janet

21.
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

22.
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

23.
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

24.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde

25.
One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats --and one always secretes too much jelly.
Woolf, Virginia

26.
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

27.
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

28.
Our best thoughts come from others.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.
Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have not the time nor means to get more.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

30.
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

31.
A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

32.
The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.
Dan Quayle

33.
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

34.
When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
Anatole France

35.
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

36.
I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
Seneca

37.
I didn't really say everything I said.
Yogi Berra

38.
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

39.
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

40.
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

41.
That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.
Cross, Amanda

42.
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
David H. Comins

43.
What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

44.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Alfred North Whitehead

45.
The essence of a quote is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying.
Morely, John

46.
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
Benjamin Disraeli

47.
To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations.
C. E. Montague

48.
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

49.
Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear.
Hassan, Ihab

50.
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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