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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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Best Quotes about Quotations

1.
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

2.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.

3.
Life itself is a quotation.
Jorge Luis Borges

4.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde

5.
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

6.
The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

7.
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

8.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
George Bernard Shaw

9.
A book of quotations . . . can never be complete.
Robert M. Hamilton

10.
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

11.
The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
H. L. Mencken

13.
A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.
Robert Chapman

14.
One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats --and one always secretes too much jelly.
Woolf, Virginia

15.
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

16.
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

17.
I quote others in order to better express myself.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

18.
A book that furnishes no quotations is no book -- it is a plaything.
Peacock, Thomas Love

19.
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

20.
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

21.
A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

22.
I didn't really say everything I said.
Yogi Berra

23.
When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
Baldwin, James

24.
The essence of a quote is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying.
Morely, John

25.
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

26.
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
Benjamin Disraeli

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

28.
Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
Orson Welles

29.
Next to being witty yourself, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
Bovee, Christian Nevell

30.
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

31.
Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear.
Hassan, Ihab

32.
He wrapped himself in quotations -- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
Kipling, Rudyard

33.
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

34.
Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
Gates, W. I. E.

35.
What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.
Mark Twain

36.
I not only use all the brains I have but all I can borrow.
Wilson, Woodrow T.

37.
An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.
Edwin P. Whipple

38.
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

39.
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
Robert Benchley

40.
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

41.
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

42.
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
Samuel Johnson

43.
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

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

45.
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

46.
Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
Andre Malraux

47.
Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.
Benjamin, Walter

48.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Alfred North Whitehead

49.
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.

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


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