Motivational Quotes

Quotations

I quote others in order to better express myself.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Quotations

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

Robert Benchley

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

Rudyard Kipling

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

Edward Young

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

Cross, Amanda

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

Hesketh Pearson

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

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

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

Odets, Clifford

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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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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Next to being witty yourself, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Robert M. Hamilton

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Morely, John

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

Edwin P. Whipple

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Talmud, The

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

Doctor Who

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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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A short saying oft contains much wisdom.

Sophocles

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

Samuel Johnson

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Life itself is a quotation.

Jorge Luis Borges

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

Hassan, Ihab

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Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Simeon Strunsky

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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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Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

Debord, Guy

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

C. E. Montague

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

Andre Malraux

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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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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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Our best thoughts come from others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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