Motivational Quotes

Quotations

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

- Kipling, Rudyard

Best Quotes about Quotations

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

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

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

Gates, W. I. E.

Life itself is a quotation.

Jorge Luis Borges

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

Seneca

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

C. E. Montague

I quote others in order to better express myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.

Cross, Amanda

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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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

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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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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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Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Simeon Strunsky

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

Baldwin, James

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

Robert Benchley

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Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

Hesketh Pearson

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

H. L. Mencken

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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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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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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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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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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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Quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara... are as germane to our highly technological, computerized society as a stagecoach on a jet runway at Kennedy airport.

Alinsky, Saul

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Ambrose Bierce

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A short saying oft contains much wisdom.

Sophocles

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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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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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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

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

Robert Chapman

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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 not only use all the brains I have but all I can borrow.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Robert M. Hamilton

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

Doctor Who

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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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Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.