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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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Best Quotes about Quotations

1.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Hesketh Pearson

2.
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

3.
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
Benjamin Disraeli

4.
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
Robert Benchley

5.
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

6.
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

7.
I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
Seneca

8.
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

9.
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

10.
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

11.
Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
Andre Malraux

12.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde

13.
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

14.
I didn't really say everything I said.
Yogi Berra

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

16.
There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.
Pierre Bayle

17.
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

18.
I not only use all the brains I have but all I can borrow.
Wilson, Woodrow T.

19.
Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.
Samuel Johnson

20.
He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
Rudyard Kipling

21.
Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.
Malcolm, Janet

22.
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

23.
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

24.
What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.
Mark Twain

25.
Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.
Edward Young

26.
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

27.
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

28.
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
Samuel Johnson

29.
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

30.
Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
Orson Welles

31.
To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations.
C. E. Montague

32.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
Simeon Strunsky

33.
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

34.
An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.
Edwin P. Whipple

35.
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

36.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.

37.
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

38.
A short saying oft contains much wisdom.
Sophocles

39.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Alfred North Whitehead

40.
The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.
Dan Quayle

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

42.
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

43.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Ambrose Bierce

44.
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

45.
Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.
Benjamin, Walter

46.
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
David H. Comins

47.
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
H. L. Mencken

48.
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

49.
The essence of a quote is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying.
Morely, John

50.
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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