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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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Best Quotes about Quotations

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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.

2.
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

3.
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
David H. Comins

4.
That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.
Cross, Amanda

5.
A book that furnishes no quotations is no book -- it is a plaything.
Peacock, Thomas Love

6.
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

7.
Next to being witty yourself, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
Bovee, Christian Nevell

8.
When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
Anatole France

9.
When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
Baldwin, James

10.
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

11.
I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
Seneca

12.
I not only use all the brains I have but all I can borrow.
Wilson, Woodrow T.

13.
Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear.
Hassan, Ihab

14.
The essence of a quote is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying.
Morely, John

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

16.
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

17.
A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished.
Talmud, The

18.
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

19.
To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations.
C. E. Montague

20.
What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.
Mark Twain

21.
There are two kinds of marriages -- where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the husband.
Odets, Clifford

22.
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
Samuel Johnson

23.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
George Bernard Shaw

24.
Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.
Malcolm, Janet

25.
Life itself is a quotation.
Jorge Luis Borges

26.
Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.
Edward Young

27.
I quote others in order to better express myself.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

28.
Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
Gates, W. I. E.

29.
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

30.
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

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

32.
A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

33.
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

34.
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
Robert Benchley

35.
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
H. L. Mencken

36.
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

37.
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
Benjamin Disraeli

38.
What's the use of a good quotation if you can't change it?
Doctor Who

39.
A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
Brendan Francis

40.
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

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

43.
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

44.
A short saying oft contains much wisdom.
Sophocles

45.
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

46.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Hesketh Pearson

47.
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

48.
I didn't really say everything I said.
Yogi Berra

49.
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

50.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Ambrose Bierce


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