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Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
-- Andre Malraux -
Quotation brings to many people one of the intensest joys of living.
-- Bernard Darwin -
I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses
-- Bill Walsh -
I surround myself with inspirational quotations.
-- Blake Mycoskie -
That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.
-- Carolyn Heilbrun -
To be amused by what you read - that is the great spring of happy quotations.
-- Charles Edward Montague -
You can always find an evolutionary quotation for anything. But the question is whether it's functional, which is not the same as being evolutionary.
-- Daniel Kahneman -
I wonder if "an" ever occurs before "haughty" except in a quotation, or whether you can make anything sound like a quotation by adding a word like "goeth"?
-- Gary Saul Morson -
A single gnomic line can come to resonate with centuries of subsequent wisdom.
-- Gary Saul Morson -
We sometimes think of quotations as extracts from larger texts, but some quotations originated complete unto themselves.
-- Gary Saul Morson -
The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths.
-- Giuseppe Mazzini -
There is indeed a strange prejudice against Quotation.
-- James Boswell -
Quotation is more universal and more ancient than one would perhaps believe.
-- James Boswell -
Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context.
-- John Wyndham -
Any stupid remark, quoted often enough, becomes gospel.
-- Leslie Charteris -
I'd lived by quotations, practically all my life.
-- Loretta Young -
The everlasting quotation-lover dotes on the husks of learning.
-- Maria Edgeworth -
You know what my favourite quotation is?...It's from Chaucer... Criseyde says it, "I am myne owene woman, wel at ese.
-- Mary McCarthy -
I quote others in order to better express myself.
-- Michel de Montaigne -
I am only too aware that I am open to Rees's Second Law of Quotation: However sure you are that you have attributed a quotation correctly, an earlier source will be pointed out to you.
-- Nigel Rees -
If it were not for quotations, conversations between gentlemen would consist of an endless series of 'what-ho!'s.
-- P. G. Wodehouse -
You can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything.
-- Peter McWilliams -
Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself is to quote one.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Oh, I don't read. I skulk about in search of quotations that might make me appear educated.
-- Tasha Alexander -
A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.
-- Thomas Love Peacock -
It often happens that the quotations constitute the most valuable part of a book.
-- Vicesimus Knox -
Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation
-- Willard Van Orman Quine -
Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.
-- Isaac D'Israeli -
Quotations are feeble; you always regret making them.
-- Dorothy Richardson
