It Is Better To Be Quotable Than To Be Honest.
- Tom Stoppard
Every Quotation Contributes Something To The Stability Or Enlargement Of The Language.
- Samuel Johnson
One Must Be A Wise Reader To Quote Wisely And Well.
- Amos Bronson Alcott
People Will Accept Your Ideas Much More Readily If You Tell Them Benjamin Franklin Said It First.
- David H. Comins
Life Itself Is A Quotation.
- Jorge Luis Borges
Famous Remarks Are Very Seldom Quoted Correctly.
- Simeon Strunsky
When A Thing Has Been Said And Well, Have No Scruple. Take It And Copy It.
- Anatole France
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
A Book Of Quotations . . . Can Never Be Complete.
- Robert M. Hamilton
A Thought Is Often Original, Though You Have Uttered It A Hundred Times.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Everything Of Importance Has Been Said Before By Somebody Who Did Not Discover It.
The Surest Way To Make A Monkey Of A Man Is To Quote Him.
- Robert Benchley
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
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
I Improve On Misquotation.
- Cary Grant
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
Next To The Originator Of A Good Sentence Is The First Quoter Of It.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Most People Are Other People. Their Thoughts Are Someone Else’s Opinions, Their Lives A Mimicry, Their Passions A Quotation.
- Oscar Wilde
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
Quotation, N: The Act Of Repeating Erroneously The Words Of Another.
- Ambrose Bierce
She Had A Pretty Gift For Quotation, Which Is A Serviceable Substitute For Wit.
- W. Somerset Maugham
What Is An Epigram? A Dwarfish Whole, Its Body Brevity, And Wit Its Soul.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Be Careful — With Quotations, You Can Damn Anything.
- Andre Malraux
What’s The Use Of A Good Quotation If You Can’t Change It?
- Doctor Who
I Didn’t Really Say Everything I Said.
- Yogi Berra
Write A Wise Saying And Your Name Will Live Forever.
- Anonymous
An Epigram Often Flashes Light Into Regions Where Reason Shines But Dimly.
- Edwin P. Whipple
He Wrapped Himself In Quotations- As A Beggar Would Enfold Himself In The Purple Of Emperors.
- Rudyard Kipling
Misquotations Are The Only Quotations That Are Never Misquoted.
I Shall Never Be Ashamed Of Citing A Bad Author If The Line Is Good.
- Seneca
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
The Point Of Quotations Is That One Can Use Another’s Words To Be Insulting.
- Amanda Cross
A Quotation In A Speech, Article Or Book Is Like A Rifle In The Hands Of An Infantryman. It Speaks With Authority.
- Brendan Francis
To Be Amused By What You Read–That Is The Great Spring Of Happy Quotations.
- C. E. Montague
Now We Sit Through Shakespeare In Order To Recognize The Quotations.
- Orson Welles
A Short Saying Oft Contains Much Wisdom.
- Sophocles
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
After All, All He Did Was String Together A Lot Of Old, Well-Known Quotations.
- H. L. Mencken
It Is Unbecoming For Young Men To Utter Maxims.
- Aristotle
A Quotation, Like A Pun, Should Come Unsought, And Then Be Welcomed Only For Some Propriety Of Felicity Justifying The Intrusion.
- Robert Chapman
Classical Quotation Is The Parole Of Literary Men All Over The World.
What A Good Thing Adam Had. When He Said A Good Thing He Knew Nobody Had Said It Before.
- Mark Twain
The Wisdom Of The Wise, And The Experience Of Ages, May Be Preserved By Quotation.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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
A Witty Saying Proves Nothing.
- Voltaire
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.’
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
The American People Would Not Want To Know Of Any Misquotes That Dan Quayle May Or May Not Make.
- Dan Quayle
A Facility For Quotation Covers The Absence Of Original Thought.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
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