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Quotations

Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.

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Best Quotes about Quotations

A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished.

Talmud, The

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

Our best thoughts come from others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Simeon Strunsky

The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Orson Welles

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

A short saying oft contains much wisdom.

Sophocles

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

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

Robert Chapman

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

Baldwin, James

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

Seneca

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.

Edwin P. Whipple

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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

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Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

Debord, Guy

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

Rudyard Kipling

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Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A book that furnishes no quotations is no book -- it is a plaything.

Peacock, Thomas Love

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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

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

Brendan Francis

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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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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

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

Hassan, Ihab

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

Edward Young

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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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

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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

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

David H. Comins

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Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.

Gates, W. I. E.

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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

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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

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I didn't really say everything I said.

Yogi Berra

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

H. L. Mencken

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I not only use all the brains I have but all I can borrow.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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

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

Anatole France

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

Samuel Johnson

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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

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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

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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

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

Fadiman, Clifton

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Life itself is a quotation.

Jorge Luis Borges

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