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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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Best Quotes about Quotations

1.
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
H. L. Mencken

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.
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

4.
I didn't really say everything I said.
Yogi Berra

5.
Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecting, as it were... in a world that is well on its way to becoming one vast quarry, the collector becomes someone engaged in a pious work of salvage. The course of modern history having already sapped the traditions and shattered the living wholes in which precious objects once found their place, the collector may now in good conscience go about excavating the choicer, more emblematic fragments.
Sontag, Susan

6.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Hesketh Pearson

7.
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

8.
A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.
Robert Chapman

9.
Life itself is a quotation.
Jorge Luis Borges

10.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde

11.
A short saying oft contains much wisdom.
Sophocles

12.
I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
Seneca

13.
There are two kinds of marriages -- where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the husband.
Odets, Clifford

14.
He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
Rudyard Kipling

15.
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

16.
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

17.
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

18.
The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

20.
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.

21.
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

22.
Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear.
Hassan, Ihab

23.
Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.
Debord, Guy

24.
When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
Baldwin, James

25.
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

26.
The essence of a quote is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying.
Morely, John

27.
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
Benjamin Disraeli

28.
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

29.
Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
Andre Malraux

30.
When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
Anatole France

31.
I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.
Fadiman, Clifton

32.
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

33.
A book of quotations . . . can never be complete.
Robert M. Hamilton

34.
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

35.
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

36.
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

37.
That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.
Cross, Amanda

38.
A book that furnishes no quotations is no book -- it is a plaything.
Peacock, Thomas Love

39.
Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
Orson Welles

40.
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
David H. Comins

41.
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

42.
An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.
Edwin P. Whipple

43.
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

44.
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

45.
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
Samuel Johnson

46.
Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.
Edward Young

47.
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

48.
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

49.
Next to being witty yourself, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
Bovee, Christian Nevell

50.
A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished.
Talmud, The


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