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39 quotations about Quotations
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
Apothegms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feelings.
When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Life itself is a quotation.
Next to being witty yourself, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.
Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.
I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
Our best thoughts come from others.
I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.
Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.
I improve on misquotation.
Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear.
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.
He wrapped himself in quotations -- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
I quote others in order to better express myself.
Authors on Quotations
Amos Bronson Alcott
William R. Alger
James Baldwin
Robert Benchley
Ambrose Bierce
Jorge Luis Borges
Christian Nevell Bovee
Amanda Cross
Guy Debord
Isaac Disraeli
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Clifton Fadiman
W. I. E. Gates
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Cary Grant
Ihab Hassan
Samuel Johnson
Rudyard Kipling
Andre Malraux
W. Somerset Maugham