Motivational Quotes

Quotations

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

- Orson Welles

Best Quotes about Quotations

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

Andre Malraux

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

C. E. Montague

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

Oscar Wilde

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Simeon Strunsky

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

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Robert M. Hamilton

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

Orson Welles

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

H. L. Mencken

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Ambrose Bierce

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

Seneca

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

Talmud, The

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I didn't really say everything I said.

Yogi Berra

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

Rudyard Kipling

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

Gates, W. I. E.

31.

A short saying oft contains much wisdom.

Sophocles

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

Samuel Johnson

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Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

Debord, Guy

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

David H. Comins

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Doctor Who

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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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Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.

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

Hassan, Ihab