Quotes and Sayings about Quotations
"Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction."
- Walter Benjamin
(Related: Work, Conviction, Quotations)
"I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence."
- Robert Burns
(Related: Existence, Mind, Quotations, Struggle)
"It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations."
- Maurice Chevalier
(Related: Men, Women, Jewels, Quotations, Wit)
"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations."
- Winston Churchill
(Related: Books, Man, Quotations)
"Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs."
- Guy Debord
(Related: Beliefs, Ignorance, 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
(Related: Love, Thoughts, Authority, Joy, Quotations)
"The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Experience, Wisdom, Quotations)
"In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall."
- Bob Dylan
(Related: People, Books, Quotations, Talk)
"In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations."
- George Eliot
(Related: Experience, Ability, Maxims, Quotations)
"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Hate, Quotations)
"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
(Related: Experience, Wisdom, Folk, Nation, Quotations, sayings)
"Let me just say something that I forgot, I also hoped and this was very true in the beginning - that this would also be a place that people would be able to walk in to the fountain and use it in a nice way of reading and examining the quotations on the blocks."
- Lawrence Halprin
(Related: People, Beginning, Quotations, Reading)
"The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting."
- Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
(Related: Quotations, Words)
"He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors."
- Rudyard Kipling
(Related: Quotations)
"The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant."
- Karl Kraus
(Related: Fire, Quotations, Trouble)
"A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything."
- Thomas Love Peacock
(Related: Quotations)
"Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted."
- Hesketh Pearson
(Related: Quotations)
"Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man."
- Barbara Pym
(Related: Man, Quotations)
"The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste."
- Susan Sontag
(Related: Quotations, Taste)
"Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations."
- Orson Welles
(Related: Now, Order, Quotations, Shakespeare)
"One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly."
- Virginia Woolf
(Related: People, Quotations)
"I'd lived by quotations, practically all my life."
- Loretta Young
(Related: Life, Quotations)