Quotes and Sayings about Quotation

"I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul."
- Max Beerbohm
(Related: Soul, Eyes, Quotations, Windows)

"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)

"Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another."
- Ambrose Bierce
(Related: Act, Quotation, Words)

"Life itself is a quotation."
- Jorge Luis Borges
(Related: Life, Quotation)

"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)

"The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation."
- Isaac D'Israeli
(Related: Experience, Wisdom, May, Quotation)

"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)

"Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Man, Quotation)

"Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Man, Quotation)

"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)

"A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority."
- Brendan Francis
(Related: Authority, Quotation, Speech)

"I improve on misquotation."
- Cary Grant

"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)

"Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world."
- Samuel Johnson
(Related: Men, Literary, Quotation, World)

"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)

"An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence."
- Letitia Landon
(Related: Light, Quotation)

"Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation."
- Janet Malcolm
(Related: Thought, Fidelity, Quotation)

"She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit."
- W. Somerset Maugham
(Related: Pretty, Quotation, Wit)

"With no more than six levels of misquotation, any statement can be made to say whatever you wish."
- John McCarthy

"In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera."
- Arthur Miller
(Related: Quotation, Theater)

"To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation."
- Charles Edward Montague
(Related: Quotation, Spring)

"A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything."
- Thomas Love Peacock
(Related: Quotations)

"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
(Related: Fact, Man, Obvious, Pride, Privilege, Quotes, Reason)

"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)

"A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool."
- Joseph Roux
(Related: Fool, Man, Quotation, Wit)

"I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking."
- Dorothy L. Sayers
(Related: Quotation, Thinking)

"The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste."
- Susan Sontag
(Related: Quotations, Taste)

"It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain!"
- Anna Garlin Spencer
(Related: Error, Forget, Man, Old, Quotation, Woman)

"We are cooling. We are not warming. The warming you see out there, the supposed warming, and I use my finger quotation marks here, is part of the cooling process."
- Michael Steele
(Related: Quotation)

"I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses."
- Bill Walsh
(Related: Beginning, Caution, Ending, Quotation)

"In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice."
- Evelyn Waugh
(Related: Dying, Quotation, Vice, World)

"Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations."
- Orson Welles
(Related: Now, Order, Quotations, Shakespeare)

"Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit."
- Oscar Wilde
(Related: Quotation, Wit)

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
- Oscar Wilde
(Related: People, Thoughts, Opinions, Quotation)

"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)