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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
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Best Quotes about Quotations

1.
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

2.
To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations.
C. E. Montague

3.
One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats --and one always secretes too much jelly.
Woolf, Virginia

4.
What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

5.
A book of quotations . . . can never be complete.
Robert M. Hamilton

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

7.
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

8.
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

9.
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

10.
The essence of a quote is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying.
Morely, John

11.
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
Benjamin Disraeli

12.
The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.
The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.
Dan Quayle

14.
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

15.
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
H. L. Mencken

16.
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

17.
A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.
Robert Chapman

18.
I not only use all the brains I have but all I can borrow.
Wilson, Woodrow T.

19.
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

20.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
Simeon Strunsky

21.
What's the use of a good quotation if you can't change it?
Doctor Who

22.
A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

23.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.

24.
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

25.
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

26.
The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.
When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
Anatole France

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

29.
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
Robert Benchley

30.
When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
Baldwin, James

31.
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

32.
Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.
Samuel Johnson

33.
I didn't really say everything I said.
Yogi Berra

34.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
George Bernard Shaw

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

37.
Next to being witty yourself, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
Bovee, Christian Nevell

38.
Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.
Edward Young

39.
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

40.
He wrapped himself in quotations -- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
Kipling, Rudyard

41.
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

42.
He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
Rudyard Kipling

43.
Our best thoughts come from others.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.
There are two kinds of marriages -- where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the husband.
Odets, Clifford

45.
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

46.
Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.
Benjamin, Walter

47.
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
David H. Comins

48.
An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.
Edwin P. Whipple

49.
A short saying oft contains much wisdom.
Sophocles

50.
I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
Seneca


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