Motivational Quotes

Quotations

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

Best Quotes about Quotations

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.

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Samuel Johnson

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

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

Malcolm, Janet

I quote others in order to better express myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Doctor Who

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Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Simeon Strunsky

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

Seneca

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

Peacock, Thomas Love

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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 at the right moment is like bread to the famished.

Talmud, The

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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 often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

George Bernard Shaw

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

H. L. Mencken

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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

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

Orson Welles

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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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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

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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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A short saying oft contains much wisdom.

Sophocles

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Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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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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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 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 a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

Mark Twain

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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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Life itself is a quotation.

Jorge Luis Borges

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

Samuel Johnson

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Our best thoughts come from others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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