Motivational Quotes

Quotations

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats --and one always secretes too much jelly.

- Woolf, Virginia

Best Quotes about Quotations

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

Rudyard Kipling

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Simeon Strunsky

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

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

Edwin P. Whipple

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

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

I didn't really say everything I said.

Yogi Berra

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

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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The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Our best thoughts come from others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

C. E. Montague

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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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Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

Debord, Guy

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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

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

Doctor Who

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Life itself is a quotation.

Jorge Luis Borges

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Hassan, Ihab

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

Robert M. Hamilton

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

Seneca

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

Orson Welles

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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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I quote others in order to better express myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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

Gates, W. I. E.

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

Peacock, Thomas Love

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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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.