Motivational Quotes

Quotations

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

- Samuel Johnson

Best Quotes about Quotations

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

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There are two kinds of marriages -- where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the husband.

Odets, Clifford

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

Hassan, Ihab

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Simeon Strunsky

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

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

I didn't really say everything I said.

Yogi Berra

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

Rudyard Kipling

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A short saying oft contains much wisdom.

Sophocles

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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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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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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

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

H. L. Mencken

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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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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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Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.

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

Seneca

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

Ambrose Bierce

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Our best thoughts come from others.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life itself is a quotation.

Jorge Luis Borges

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

Peacock, Thomas Love

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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

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Edwin P. Whipple

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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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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 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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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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I quote others in order to better express myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Baldwin, James

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Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

Debord, Guy

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

Benjamin, Walter

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

Talmud, The

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

Dan Quayle

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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