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A book of quotations . . . can never be complete.
- Robert M. Hamilton
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Best Quotes about Quotations

1.
When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
Baldwin, James

2.
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

3.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Alfred North Whitehead

4.
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
Benjamin Disraeli

5.
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

6.
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

7.
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

8.
A book of quotations . . . can never be complete.
Robert M. Hamilton

9.
What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

10.
A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

11.
Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.
Benjamin, Walter

12.
I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.
Fadiman, Clifton

13.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Joseph Roux

14.
When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
Anatole France

15.
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.

16.
The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.
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

18.
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

19.
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

20.
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

21.
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

22.
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
Samuel Johnson

23.
There are two kinds of marriages -- where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the husband.
Odets, Clifford

24.
The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.
Dan Quayle

25.
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

26.
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

27.
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

28.
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

29.
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

30.
A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished.
Talmud, The

31.
I not only use all the brains I have but all I can borrow.
Wilson, Woodrow T.

32.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Hesketh Pearson

33.
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

34.
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

35.
To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations.
C. E. Montague

36.
He wrapped himself in quotations -- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
Kipling, Rudyard

37.
Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
Andre Malraux

38.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde

39.
A short saying oft contains much wisdom.
Sophocles

40.
Life itself is a quotation.
Jorge Luis Borges

41.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Ambrose Bierce

42.
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

43.
Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
Gates, W. I. E.

44.
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

45.
Our best thoughts come from others.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.
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

47.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
Simeon Strunsky

48.
What's the use of a good quotation if you can't change it?
Doctor Who

49.
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
Robert Benchley

50.
Next to being witty yourself, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
Bovee, Christian Nevell


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