Motivational Quotes

Quotations

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

- Malcolm, Janet

Best Quotes about Quotations

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

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

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

Malcolm, Janet

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

Dan Quayle

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

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Doctor Who

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

Samuel Johnson

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

Debord, Guy

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Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.

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

C. E. Montague

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Rudyard Kipling

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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

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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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I didn't really say everything I said.

Yogi Berra

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

Cross, Amanda

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When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

Anatole France

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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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Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Simeon Strunsky

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

Edwin P. Whipple

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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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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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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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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I quote others in order to better express myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

32.

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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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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The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

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

Andre Malraux

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Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

Hesketh Pearson

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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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A short saying oft contains much wisdom.

Sophocles

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Life itself is a quotation.

Jorge Luis Borges

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Edward Young

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