Best Quotes about Quotations
The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.
Dan Quayle
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
Robert Benchley
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
David H. Comins
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
A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
Brendan Francis
When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
Baldwin, James
Our best thoughts come from others.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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
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
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
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
When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
Anatole France
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
I not only use all the brains I have but all I can borrow.
Wilson, Woodrow T.
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
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
Next to being witty yourself, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
Bovee, Christian Nevell
A book that furnishes no quotations is no book -- it is a plaything.
Peacock, Thomas Love
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Hesketh Pearson
The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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
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
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
Benjamin Disraeli
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde
An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.
Edwin P. Whipple
What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.
Mark Twain
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
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
I didn't really say everything I said.
Yogi Berra
Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
Orson Welles
Life itself is a quotation.
Jorge Luis Borges
There are two kinds of marriages -- where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the husband.
Odets, Clifford
Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.
Malcolm, Janet
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
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
The essence of a quote is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying.
Morely, John
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
H. L. Mencken
I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.
Fadiman, Clifton
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Alfred North Whitehead
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
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear.
Hassan, Ihab
What's the use of a good quotation if you can't change it?
Doctor Who
He wrapped himself in quotations -- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
Kipling, Rudyard
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 often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
George Bernard Shaw
Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.
Edward Young
To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations.
C. E. Montague
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