Motivational Quotes

Quotations

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

Best Quotes about Quotations

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Orson Welles

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

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

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

Hesketh Pearson

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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

Doctor Who

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

Robert Benchley

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

H. L. Mencken

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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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

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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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Life itself is a quotation.

Jorge Luis Borges

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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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Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Simeon Strunsky

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

Debord, Guy

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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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Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.

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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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A book that furnishes no quotations is no book -- it is a plaything.

Peacock, Thomas Love

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One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats --and one always secretes too much jelly.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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I quote others in order to better express myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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I didn't really say everything I said.

Yogi Berra

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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

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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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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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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.

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

Gates, W. I. E.

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

Edwin P. Whipple

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

Ambrose Bierce

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Talmud, The

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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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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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

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

Benjamin, Walter

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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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A book of quotations . . . can never be complete.

Robert M. Hamilton

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