Motivational Quotes

Quotations

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

- Doctor Who

Best Quotes about Quotations

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

Benjamin, Walter

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Samuel Johnson

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

H. L. Mencken

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

Hassan, Ihab

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

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

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

Edwin P. Whipple

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

Anatole France

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

Robert Benchley

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Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

Debord, Guy

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

Doctor Who

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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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I quote others in order to better express myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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

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

Orson Welles

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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

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Our best thoughts come from others.

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

Gates, W. I. E.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

Hesketh Pearson

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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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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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Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.

Andre Malraux

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Samuel Johnson

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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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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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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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Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.

43.

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Simeon Strunsky

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I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether.

Alfred North Whitehead

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Life itself is a quotation.

Jorge Luis Borges

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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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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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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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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

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

Talmud, The