Motivational Quotes

Quotations

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

Best Quotes about Quotations

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

Debord, Guy

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

Gates, W. I. E.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

George Bernard Shaw

A short saying oft contains much wisdom.

Sophocles

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

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

David H. Comins

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

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

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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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Cross, Amanda

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

Talmud, The

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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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A book of quotations . . . can never be complete.

Robert M. Hamilton

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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

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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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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.

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I didn't really say everything I said.

Yogi Berra

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

H. L. Mencken

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Oscar Wilde

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

C. E. Montague

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Life itself is a quotation.

Jorge Luis Borges

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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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Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Simeon Strunsky

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

Edwin P. Whipple

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

Benjamin, Walter

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I quote others in order to better express myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Mark Twain

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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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

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Doctor Who

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

Robert Benchley

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