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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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Best Quotes about Quotations

1.
Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.
Malcolm, Janet

2.
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

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.
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

5.
What's the use of a good quotation if you can't change it?
Doctor Who

6.
I didn't really say everything I said.
Yogi Berra

7.
I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.
Fadiman, Clifton

8.
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

9.
A short saying oft contains much wisdom.
Sophocles

10.
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
Robert Benchley

11.
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

12.
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

13.
To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations.
C. E. Montague

14.
What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

15.
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

16.
A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.
Robert Chapman

17.
What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.
Mark Twain

18.
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

19.
When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
Baldwin, James

20.
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

21.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
George Bernard Shaw

22.
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

23.
There are two kinds of marriages -- where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the husband.
Odets, Clifford

24.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.

25.
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

26.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
Simeon Strunsky

27.
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

28.
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

29.
I not only use all the brains I have but all I can borrow.
Wilson, Woodrow T.

30.
He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
Rudyard Kipling

31.
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

32.
Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.
Benjamin, Walter

33.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Hesketh Pearson

34.
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

35.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde

36.
Life itself is a quotation.
Jorge Luis Borges

37.
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

38.
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
Benjamin Disraeli

39.
I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
Seneca

40.
The essence of a quote is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying.
Morely, John

41.
A book that furnishes no quotations is no book -- it is a plaything.
Peacock, Thomas Love

42.
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

43.
When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
Anatole France

44.
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.

45.
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

46.
He wrapped himself in quotations -- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
Kipling, Rudyard

47.
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

48.
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
David H. Comins

49.
An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.
Edwin P. Whipple

50.
Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
Gates, W. I. E.


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