Motivational Quotes

Quotations

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

- Hassan, Ihab

Best Quotes about Quotations

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

Gates, W. I. E.

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Benjamin, Walter

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

Malcolm, Janet

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

C. E. Montague

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

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

H. L. Mencken

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

Doctor Who

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

Edwin P. Whipple

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Robert Benchley

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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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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

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I quote others in order to better express myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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I didn't really say everything I said.

Yogi Berra

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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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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

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Andre Malraux

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There are two kinds of marriages -- where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the husband.

Odets, Clifford

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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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Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Simeon Strunsky

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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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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

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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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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

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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

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

Orson Welles

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

Hesketh Pearson

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

Dan Quayle

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Morely, John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Samuel Johnson

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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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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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A short saying oft contains much wisdom.

Sophocles

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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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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

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Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.

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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