Motivational Quotes

Quotations

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

- Orson Welles

Best Quotes about Quotations

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

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I didn't really say everything I said.

Yogi Berra

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

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

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Simeon Strunsky

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

Orson Welles

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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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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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Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

Debord, Guy

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

Ambrose Bierce

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

Robert Benchley

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

Robert M. Hamilton

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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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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

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Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

Hesketh Pearson

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A short saying oft contains much wisdom.

Sophocles

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Our best thoughts come from others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Andre Malraux

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Peacock, Thomas Love

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

Fadiman, Clifton

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

Seneca

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

Gates, W. I. E.

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

Samuel Johnson

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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